Control of Style with a Generative Grammar 1
Sheldon Klein · Language · 1965
1. Introduction. In the course of building an automatic essay-paraphrasing computer program it became apparent to me that certain quantitative features of style could be controlled in the paraphrasing process. This paper presents the results of several experiments in the control of two quantitative measures of style, frequency of occurrence of syntactic structures and frequency of occurrence of pronouns. The results suggest that any well-defined quantitative measure of style is subject to machine control.