Stylo ver. 0.6.7

[Maciej Eder]

Dear All,

this is to announce a new version of the package ‘stylo’ (ver. 0.6.7), which should be available on CRAN by now. Finally arrived! Suffice it to say that it was submitted a week ago or so, but nowadays it takes ages until a package gets built for MacOS and Windows on CRAN’s mirrors.

The new version features three things:

(1) Apart from the already-existant support for markup produced by Stanford POS tagger and TreeTagger, the function parse.pos.tags() now can extract tags outputted by TaKIPI (a tagger for Polish), and Alpino (a tagger for Dutch). It’s a low-level function, currently not invoked from the main functions such as stylo(). Type help(parse.pos.tags) for the details.

(2) a home-brew implementation of the General Imposters method, via the new function imposters()

(3) an implementation for fine-tuning the p1 and p2 parameters for the Imposters method, via the function imposters.optimize()

Now, when it comes to in-depth documentation of (1), you’re in the mercy of the help(parse.pos.tags), whereas the (2) and (3) are covered in a separate post: https://computationalstylistics.github.io/docs/imposters 

Installation of the new ‘stylo’ is straightforward, as always:

install.packages("stylo")

Alternatively, you might install the package directly from Github, which is a more adventurous way to do it:

library(devtools)

install_github("computationalstylistics/stylo")

In a minute, I will post another piece on documentation that has been recently made available.

Happy stylo()ing!

Maciej