How to Use it to Your Best Advantage

DavidLandanSenior Computational Linguist

What Do We Mean By

Style Can be Formally Defined in a Style Guide That Authors & Translators are Requested to Adhere to

(But it Doesn’t Have to Be)

Style is a Consistency of Voice Across Multiple Documents

Style Tells us Something About the Target Audience

Style Tends to Reflect Patterns of Conscious Grammatical Decisions

For the Purposes of StyleScorer, the Documents Define the Style, Rather than the Style Defining the Documents

• Quality Requirements Vary With Different Content Types• Even So, Consistency Within Each Type is Important

• Clients are Demanding Faster Turnaround Times on Greater Varieties of Content• Automating as Much of the Review Process as Possible Helps a

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• Cognitive Load on Translators Can Reduce Productivity• Welocalize StyleScorer Can Help!

Why Does It Matter?

M a r k e t i n g B r o c h u r e s

Email Blasts

Technical Manuals

H e l p S y s t e m sLegal Documentation

Corporate Training

• A Language-Agnostic Tool for Scoring New Documents Against the Style of Established Documents

• Score Determined by Weighted Linear Combination of Multiple Components

• Average Perplexity

• Document Dissimilarity

• One-Class Support Vector Machine Classifier

• Neural Network Classifier

What is StyleScorer?

How Does StyleScorer Help?

• We Take Two or More Client Documents (TMs, Word Docs, Plain Text, etc.) & Feed Them Into StyleScorer

• Works Best With a Total of 10k or More Segments/Sentences

• We Then Take One or More New Documents & Ask StyleScorer to Rate Them

• Results File is Tab-Delimited With Test Filename & Score Per Line

• Scores are Analog 0-4, With Higher Scores Denoting Better Style Match

What Exactly Does it Do?

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