TY - JOUR AU - Teddiman, Laura PY - 2009/03/20 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Contextuality and Beyond: Investigating an Online Diary Corpus JF - Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media JA - ICWSM VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - Poster Papers DO - 10.1609/icwsm.v3i1.14004 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/14004 SP - 331-333 AB - <p> Heylighen and Dewaele’s (2002) F-score, a measure of formality developed based on categorical frequencies of word types, is used as a starting point for an investigation of an online diary corpus. Comparisons are made between results in the main corpus of diary entries, a smaller corpus of diary comments, and with previously calculated F-scores for similar types of data (Nowson, Oberlander & Gill, 2005). While the overall F-score is similar in these two corpora, results show that internal make-up of the categories upon which the calculation is based can differ. This suggests that while the F-score is a good measure of formality/contextuality and is useful in distinguishing between genres on a large scale, more detailed analyses are required to more completely describe and situate genres with respect to one another. </p> ER -