Research on the evolution of netizens’ comment focus in university online public opinion: KTF-BTM topic model with topic-temporal-focus framework

Topic and Focus in a Formal Framework

focus on communication in iranian high school language classes: a study of the role of teaching materials in changing the focus onto communication in language classes

چکیده ارتباط در کلاس به عوامل زیادی از جمله معلمان، دانش آموزان، برنامه های درسی و از همه مهم تر، مواد آموزشی وابسته است. در تدریس ارتباطی زبان که تاکید زیادی بر توانش ارتباطی دارد، کتاب درسی به عنوان عامل موثر بر پویایی کلاس محسوب میگردد که درس ها را از طریق فراهم آوردن متن ارتباط کلاسی و هم چنین نوع تمرین زبانی که دانش آموزان در طول فعالیت های کلاسی به آن مشغول اند، کنترل می کند. این حقیقت ک...

Topic-focus and Salience

Most of the current work on corpus annotation is concentrated on morphemics, lexical semantics and sentence structure. However, it becomes more and more obvious that attention should and can be also paid to phenomena that reflect the links between a sentence and its context, i.e. the discourse anchoring of utterances. If conceived in this way, an annotated corpus can be used as a resource for l...

Topic-Focus Articulation in PDT: Prosodic Characteristics of Contrastive Topic

This contribution (which was a basis for the poster Some Observations on Contrastive Topic in Czech Spontaneous Speech presented by the authors at CIL 17; the abstract of the poster is published in the volume of Abstracts of CIL17, Prague 2003, p. 361) is a preliminary, draft version of a more detailed and modified paper prepared for submission for Interspeech ICLSP 2004. We are most grateful t...

Focus and Topic Sensitive Operators

Sentences like “Anna only gave BILL chocolate” are commonly analyzed as involving a dependency between the placement of intonational focus and the division of material between the restriction and scope of focus sensitive particles (FSP) like only. A word is focus sensitive if its semantics involves essential reference to the information structure of the sentence containing it. A number of lexic...