<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Writing style plays a role in publication venue recommendation. However, such finding should be observed further; it is concluded from an arbitrary dataset which contains various topics and writing quality. This paper aims to observe that style's impact in a more controlled environment. A dataset with the same specific topic and writing quality was used and analysed. In our case, the dataset is comprised of papers published on reputable software engineering publication venues with natural language generation as the specific topic. According to our observation, writing style only affects significantly on paper title wherein the impact is proportional to n in n-gram. Moreover, the style’s impact becomes more salient when the venues are grouped per publisher or only a specific publication type is considered.</p></abstract>

Writing style plays a role in publication venue recommendation. However, such finding should be observed further; it is concluded from an arbitrary dataset which contains various topics and writing quality. This paper aims to observe that style's impact in a more controlled environment. A dataset with the same specific topic and writing quality was used and analysed. In our case, the dataset is comprised of papers published on reputable software engineering publication venues with natural language generation as the specific topic. According to our observation, writing style only affects significantly on paper title wherein the impact is proportional to n in n-gram. Moreover, the style’s impact becomes more salient when the venues are grouped per publisher or only a specific publication type is considered.

Measuring the Significance of Writing Style for Recommending Where to Publish – A Case Study

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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Writing style plays a role in publication venue recommendation. However, such finding should be observed further; it is concluded from an arbitrary dataset...

Measuring the Significance of Writing Style for Recommending Where to Publish – A Case Study

Published Online: Sep 26, 2019

Page range: 3 - 15

Received: Sep 07, 2018

Accepted: Jun 07, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2019-0022

Keywords
Recommender system, writing style, publication venues, N-gram language model

© 2019 Oscar Karnalim et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Measuring the Significance of Writing Style for Recommending Where to Publish – A Case Study

Published Online: Sep 26, 2019

Page range: 3 - 15

Received: Sep 07, 2018

Accepted: Jun 07, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2019-0022

KeywordsRecommender system, writing style, publication venues, N-gram language model

© 2019 Oscar Karnalim et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Recommender system, writing style, publication venues, N-gram language model