We participated in the link detection task and submitted four runs, including both manual and ASR transcription for audio resources; and both English translation and original Chinese character source stream for Mandarin sources. This paper will propose a method to tell if a pair of news stories discusses the same topic. Several issues are addressed, e.g., how to represent a news story, how to m...

This study attempts a new conceptualization of communication “sources” by proposing a typology of sources that would apply not only to traditional media but also to new online media. Ontological rationale for the distinctions in the typology is supplemented by psychological evidence via an experiment that investigated the effects of different types of source attributions upon receivers’ percept...

This study aims to display how Carol Shileds’s short story Hinterland subverts the fundamental aspects of the classical definition of literature. Via parody, the story deconstructs the mediums that are peculiar to the concept of literary art. Moreover, Shileds does not only question central truths, but she also renders the reader to open a new perspective by revising the grand narratives of lit...

story and novel writing have been a traditional legacy of india and they have been a part of indian culture. story writing has a pronounced past and an equally impeccable present. epics like the mahabharata and ramayana as well as fables like the panchtantra are acclaimed as the heritage of glorious works of literature across the world. persian, urdu and hindi languages are very closely linked ...

Translation of a literary text is a difficult task, for understanding literature requires knowledge of various linguistic levels of a literary text in addition to strategies and methods of translation. To this should still be added cognitive-based translation training which helps practitioners preserve the aesthetic aspects of a literary text. Focusing on short story as a genre with both ...

A coherent story is a story that fits together well. This notion plays a central role in the coherence theory of justification and has been proposed as a criterion for scientific theory choice. Many attempts have been made to give a probabilistic account of this notion. A proper account of coherence must not start from some partial intuitions, but should pay attention to the role that this noti...

We consider the problem of accessing multiple heterogeneous information sources (e.g. web sources , relational DBMSs , flat files, etc.) and constructing a succinct story about an entity (e.g. a person or a place or an event) in a way that meets the user's interests, and deliver the resulting story to the user across heterogeneous, potentially mobile devices. As such, a story must be short (its...

the present article studies the short stories by jabra ibrahim jabra the iraqi writer who was born in palestine. he is among the neo-writers of arabic literature concerning poetry, translation, criticism and novel. his collection “ergh and other stories” is one of his first experiences in story writing. his stories seem to be an introduction or a conclusion to his novel which was inspired by ro...