This directory contains CSRI Technical Report #365 entitled

Ensuring Stylistic Congruity in Collaboratively Written Text:
Requirements Analysis and Design Issues
   
by

Melanie Baljko

Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto 



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.

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