{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/the-effect-of-different-writing-tasks-on","title":"The Effect of Different Writing Tasks on Linguistic Style: A Case Study of the ROC Story Cloze Task","arxiv_id":"1702.01841","date":"2017-02-07","proceeding":"CONLL 2017 8","authors":["Roy Schwartz","Maarten Sap","Ioannis Konstas","Li Zilles","Yejin Choi","Noah A. Smith"],"abstract":"A writer's style depends not just on personal traits but also on her intent\nand mental state. In this paper, we show how variants of the same writing task\ncan lead to measurable differences in writing style. We present a case study\nbased on the story cloze task (Mostafazadeh et al., 2016a), where annotators\nwere assigned similar writing tasks with different constraints: (1) writing an\nentire story, (2) adding a story ending for a given story context, and (3)\nadding an incoherent ending to a story. We show that a simple linear classifier\ninformed by stylistic features is able to successfully distinguish among the\nthree cases, without even looking at the story context. In addition, combining\nour stylistic features with language model predictions reaches state of the art\nperformance on the story cloze challenge. Our results demonstrate that\ndifferent task framings can dramatically affect the way people write.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01841v3","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.01841v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"the-effect-of-different-writing-tasks-on","repo_url":"https://github.com/roys174/writing_style","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"language-modeling","task_name":"Language Modeling"},{"task_slug":"language-modelling","task_name":"Language Modelling"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/1702.01841","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1702.01841","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}