ive Summarization of Line Graphs from Popular Media Charles Greenbacker, Peng Wu, Sandra Carberry, Kathleen McCoy and Stephanie Elzer . . . . . . 41 Extractive Multi-Document Summaries Should Explicitly Not Contain Document Specific Content Rebecca Mason and Eugene Charniak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

We present our system used for the AIPHES team submission in the context of the EmpiriST shared task on “Automatic Linguistic Annotation of ComputerMediated Communication / Social Media”. Our system is based on a rulebased tokenizer and a machine learning sequence labelling POS tagger using a variety of features. We show that the system is robust across the two tested genres: German computer me...

Applications that use games to harness human intelligence to perform various computational tasks are increasing in popularity and may be termed as human computation games (HCGs). Most HCGs are collaborative in nature, requiring players to cooperate within a game to score points. Competitive versions, where players work against each other, are a more recent entrant, and have been argued to addre...

If science fiction is a genre, then attempts to think about the nature of science fiction will be affected by one’s understanding of what genres are. I shall examine two approaches to genre, one (genres as regions of conceptual space) dominant but inadequate, the other (genres as historical particulars) better, but only occasionally making itself seen. I shall then discuss several important, in...

This paper argues that there is a general absence of democratic theory in African political scholarship in terms of providing the underlying principles, meaning, canons and criteria of democracy in African culture. The paper exposes the conceptual errors implicit in the conflation of democracy as a concept and as practiced in different political systems. Consequently, it contends that an eclect...

this study was an attempt to identify the interlingual strategies employed to translate english subtitles into persian and to determine their frequency, as well. contrary to many countries, subtitling is a new field in iran. the study, a corpus-based, comparative, descriptive, non-judgmental analysis of an english-persian parallel corpus, comprised english audio scripts of five movies of differ...

This paper presents an empirical study of linguistic formality. We perform an analysis of humans’ perceptions of formality in four different genres. These findings are used to develop a statistical model for predicting formality, which is evaluated under different feature settings and genres. We apply our model to an investigation of formality in online discussion forums, and present findings c...

The number of channels and genres offered by television and video service providers has increased and proliferated tremendously in recent years. This continuous increase is as a result of different factors such as preferences, interests, tastes and demographics of individuals who watch television and video. In order for television and video service providers to attract, retain and satisfy custo...