A goaldirected multi-level stylistic analyzer

Sophisticated natural language pro-cessing systems should be able to deal with the subtle but signicant ef-fects of style on communication, but the diculties of representing stylis-tic knowledge in a formal represen-tation had resulted in only simplis-tic and heuristic approaches to imple-mentation. In this paper, we take the problem of formally representing stylistic knowl-edge as our starting point. It is our belief that stylistic knowledge must rst be formalized, rendered in a well