Quantitative analysis of textual genres: comparison of English and Lithuanian

Abstract

We report an ongoing study on quantitative characteristics of texts written in different genres. At this stage, we compared Lithuanian and English texts in terms of genres. We used 16 indices which describe frequency structure of text as well as indicate several other characteristics of written texts. Initial study showed significant differences of indices calculated for genre pairs of the same language. Hierarchical clustering revealed possible applications in using them as features for text categorization/classification by genre, though better results were achieved for Lithuanian texts