Post on 13-Apr-2017
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
Lot!
• 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?
• 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?