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This paper attempts to assess the progress made in computational stylistics dyring the course of the past twenty-five years. First, we discuss some theoretical notions of style, and then we sketch certain trends that emerge from relevant articles appearing in a variety of publications including conference proceedings and academic journals (other than CHum). The conclusion is that progress has been mixed.
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Louis T. Milic is professor emeritus of English at Cleveland State University and secretary-treasurer of the Dictionary Society of North America. He has been active in quantitative stylistics since the 1960s and has recently completed work on the second of two period corpora, the Century of Prose Corpus.
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Milic, L. Progress in stylistics: Theory, statistics, computers. Comput Hum 25, 393–400 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00141189
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00141189