Style

Definition

This is a subjective evaluation of the correctness of the style of each sentence (Evaluation of the 1978 Version of the SYSTRAN English-French Automatic system of the Commission of the European Communities. Georges van Slype). This quality is also commonly referred to as "register" and includes degree of formality, forcefulness and bias as exhibited through both lexical and morpho-syntactic choices.

Metrics

Van Slype (in Van Slype's Critical Report): Evaluation of sentences on a 4-point scale.

String edit distance (Niessen, Och, Leusch, & Ney 2000).

References

Hovy 1988.

Notes

This quality is distinct from Readability (2.2.1.1.1.1./172). A text may be highly readable but in an inappropriate style / register.