What About Sequential Data Mining Techniques to Identify Linguistic Patterns for Stylistics?

Solen Quiniou (1) , Peggy Cellier (2) , Thierry Charnois (3) , Dominique Legallois (1)

1 CRISCO - Centre de recherche inter-langues sur la signification en contexte
2 LIS - Logical Information Systems
3 Equipe CODAG - Laboratoire GREYC - UMR6072

In this paper, we study the use of data mining techniques for stylistic analysis, from a linguistic point of view, by considering emerging sequential patterns. First, we show that mining sequential patterns of words with gap constraints gives new relevant linguistic patterns with respect to patterns built on n-grams. Then, we investigate how sequential patterns of itemsets can provide more generic linguistic patterns. We validate our approach from a linguistic point of view by conducting experiments on three corpora of various types of French texts (Poetry, Letters, and Fictions). By considering more particularly poetic texts, we show that characteristic linguistic patterns can be identified using data mining techniques. We also discuss how to improve our proposed approach so that it can be used more efficiently for linguistic analyses.

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document; Apprentissage [cs.LG]

Solen Quiniou, Peggy Cellier, Thierry Charnois, Dominique Legallois. What About Sequential Data Mining Techniques to Identify Linguistic Patterns for Stylistics?. CICLing 2012: Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Mar 2012, New Delhi, India. pp.166-177, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-28604-9_14⟩. ⟨hal-00675578⟩