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EYEBALL: A computer program for description of style

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  1. Donald Ross, “The Style of Thoreau'sWalden,” Diss., Univ. of Michigan 1967; George U. Yule, “On Sentence Length as a Statistical Characteristic of Style in Prose, with Application to Two Cases of Disputed Authorship,”Biometrika 30 (1938), 363–90;The Statistical Study of Literary Vocabulary (Cambridge, England: The Cambridge University Press, 1944); Louis T. Milic,A Quantitative Approach to the Style of Jonathan Swift (The Hague: Mouton, 1967); Lubomir Doležel and Richard W. Bailey, eds.,Statistics and Style (New York: American Elsevier, 1969).

  2. Louis T. Milic confirms this view in “The Computer Approach to Style” inThe Art of Victorian Prose, ed. Levine and Madden (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968), esp. pp. 352–54. The EYEBALL input must be transcribed in a machine-readable form, but the text can be entered either from cards or card-image files. Since input is treated as a stream of characters, record boundaries are not observed, although split words should not be hyphenated. All punctuation marks may be retained. Most computer-usable material which has different format can, of course, be edited by simple programs to conform to these requirements.

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  1. English, University of Minnesota, Minnesota

    Donald Ross Jr. (assistant professor)

  2. Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania

    Robert H. Rasche

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Ross, D., Rasche, R.H. EYEBALL: A computer program for description of style. Comput Hum 6, 213–221 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02404269

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