Arxiv ACL Anthology Presented at LaTeCH-CLFL 2024 @ EACL

Textual style is composed of a number of features. While modifications of these features are common in many discourses, literary style employs a number of variations uncommon in other registers. This includes modifying the orthographic elements of “standard” words in order to indicate some form of difference on the character or authorial level.

Such modifications are often contextually-determined, and not beholden to phonetics or morphology, rendering their analysis using traditional computation means (e.g. edit distance) fraught. We use neural edit distance models and a modified human-in-the-loop strategy to make this task tractable.