Ensuring stylistic congruity in collaboratively written text: Requirements analysis and design issues. Baljko, M. Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, May, 1997. Published as technical report CSRI-365
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Often, texts that have been written collaboratively do not ``speak with a single voice.'' Eliminating stylistic incongruity, a difficult undertaking for both collaborative and singular writers, is the desired function of a software tool. This thesis describes the first cycle of an iterative software development process towards meeting this goal. The user requirements are analyzed with respect to a model that synthesizes established research, and then the requirements are taxonomized. Then, a framework for performing computational stylistic assessments is developed for later tool design. An experiment designed to measure the subjectivity in stylistic assessment — a relevant issue for making deterministic, computational stylistic assessments — was performed; the results indicate that future stylistic assessment tools must account for different patterns of assessment. Several design directions motivated by these results are suggested.
@MastersThesis{	  baljko7,
  author	= {Melanie Baljko},
  title		= {Ensuring stylistic congruity in collaboratively written
		  text: Requirements analysis and design issues},
  school	= {Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto},
  month		= {May},
  year		= {1997},
  abstract	= {Often, texts that have been written collaboratively do not
		  ``speak with a single voice.'' Eliminating stylistic
		  incongruity, a difficult undertaking for both collaborative
		  and singular writers, is the desired function of a software
		  tool. This thesis describes the first cycle of an iterative
		  software development process towards meeting this goal. The
		  user requirements are analyzed with respect to a model that
		  synthesizes established research, and then the requirements
		  are taxonomized. Then, a framework for performing
		  computational stylistic assessments is developed for later
		  tool design. An experiment designed to measure the
		  subjectivity in stylistic assessment --- a relevant issue
		  for making deterministic, computational stylistic
		  assessments --- was performed; the results indicate that
		  future stylistic assessment tools must account for
		  different patterns of assessment. Several design directions
		  motivated by these results are suggested.},
  download	= {http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/Baljko-MSc-thesis.pdf},
  note		= {Published as technical report CSRI-365}
}

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