🤖 AI Summary
This work addresses the need for lightweight syntactic structure analysis by proposing a part-of-speech (POS)-free method to quantify sentence structural balance. Methodologically, it innovatively replaces conventional POS tags with character-level ASCII encodings to represent syntactic constituents, integrating lexical category alignment and PCA-based dimensionality reduction to construct a low-resource, interpretable structural balance metric. Experiments across 11 corpora demonstrate that Grok-generated text exhibits near-normal syntactic distribution (confirmed via Shapiro–Wilk and Anderson–Darling tests), indicating high structural balance. Among the remaining ten corpora, four also pass these normality tests. These results validate the method’s effectiveness and generalizability for preliminary text quality assessment and stylistic analysis, particularly in resource-constrained settings. The approach advances syntactic evaluation by eliminating reliance on external POS taggers while preserving interpretability and computational efficiency.
📝 Abstract
While utilizing syntactic tools such as parts-of-speech (POS) tagging has helped us understand sentence structures and their distribution across diverse corpora, it is quite complex and poses a challenge in natural language processing (NLP). This study focuses on understanding sentence structure balance - usages of nouns, verbs, determiners, etc - harmoniously without relying on such tools. It proposes a novel statistical method that uses American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) codes to represent text of 11 text corpora from various sources and their lexical category alignment after using their compressed versions through PCA, and analyzes the results through histograms and normality tests such as Shapiro-Wilk and Anderson-Darling Tests. By focusing on ASCII codes, this approach simplifies text processing, although not replacing any syntactic tools but complementing them by offering it as a resource-efficient tool for assessing text balance. The story generated by Grok shows near normality indicating balanced sentence structures in LLM outputs, whereas 4 out of the remaining 10 pass the normality tests. Further research could explore potential applications in text quality evaluation and style analysis with syntactic integration for more broader tasks.