Elke Teich

Information-based Modeling of Diachronic Linguistic Change: from Typicality to Productivity

2016

We present a new approach for modeling diachronic linguistic change in grammatical usage. We illustrate the approach on English scientific writing in Late Modern English, focusing on grammatical patterns that are potentially indicative of shifts …

Modeling intra-textual variation with entropy and surprisal: topical vs. stylistic patterns

2017

We present a data-driven approach to investigate intra-textual variation by combining entropy and surprisal. With this approach we detect linguistic variation based on phrasal lexico-grammatical patterns across sections of research articles. Entropy is used to …