To some extent, written academic discourse represents the knowledge and practices of the
academic community. Studies investigating writing styles in various disciplines have …

Disciplinary writing style stems from the practice of science, reflecting the scientific culture.
This study aims to explore the differences and evolution of scientific writing styles from the …

This study intends to describe the diachronic changes of linguistic complexity (ie, overall,
morphological, and syntactic complexity) in scientific writing based on Kolmogorov …

Based on 774 argumentative writings produced by Chinese English as a foreign language
(EFL) learners, this study examined the extent to which Kolmogorov complexity metrics can …

Most of the previous studies focused on lexical and syntactic features in adapted texts while
little attention has been paid to the structural complexity from the perspective of the amount …

This paper surveys how computational distributional semantic models (DSMs) have thus far
been employed to study morphosyntactic variation and change in Early Modern English. As …

Previous studies found an increasing trend of linguistic positivity in academic texts. That is,
there is a tendency towards using more positive language than negative language in …

Computational studies of semantic change are often wide in scope, aiming to capture and
quantify semantic change in language at large in a data-driven,'hands-off'way. Case-driven …

Previous research mostly used simplistic measures and limited linguistic features (eg,
personal pronouns, absolutist words, and sentiment words) in a text to identify its author's …

Fiction has come to play an essential part in human culture and life in recent centuries.
Because of its importance, the language or discourse of fiction has been widely studied …