This paper is situated within the debate between “specialist” and “generalist” methods of analysis in the study of world literature. It is argued that a systemic linguistic discourse analysis of appropriately encoded text passages can provide a methodology which can be utilised to interrogate the national and international demarcations of comparative literary analysis. A case study consisting o...

Fiction authors rarely provide detailed descriptions of scenes, preferring the reader to fill in the details using their imagination. Therefore, to perform detailed text-to-scene conversion from books, we need to not only identify explicit objects but also infer implicit objects. In this paper, we describe an approach to inferring objects using Wikipedia and WordNet. In our experiments, we are ...

The integration of man, a protective suit, and computer has been an integral part of the vision presented in science fiction movies and books since long before the Borg strode across the Star Trek screen. It is easy to envision using computers in countless ways to augment human perception, recall, and reactions to provide huge gains in personal safety and capability. However, the reality for to...

The clustering of text documents in the vector space of semantic fields and in the semantic space with orthogonal basis has been analysed. It is shown that using the vector space model with the basis of semantic fields is effective in the cluster analysis algorithms of author’s texts in English fiction. The analysis of the author’s texts distribution in cluster structure showed the presence of ...

MKULTRA is an experimental game that explores novel AIbased game mechanics. Similar in some ways to text-based interactive fiction, the player controls a character who interacts with other characters through dialog. Unlike traditional IF, MKULTRA characters have simple natural language understanding and generation capabilities, sufficient to answer questions and carry out simple tasks. The game...

In December 2010, the FCC completed an almost 4 yearlong rulemaking process related to socalled “Internet Neutrality.” During this process, more than 32,000 comments and related documents were filed with the FCC, arguing for or against net neutrality regulation. The debate over net neutrality is largely understood to be one of access providers vs. content providers. Those companies providing ho...

In this paper, we propose the use of automatic text classification methods to analyse variation in English-German translations from both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. The experiments described in this paper are carried out in two steps. We trained classifiers to 1) discriminate between different genres (fiction, political essays, etc.); and 2) identify the translation method (ma...

Introduction The ability to understand and communicate in natural languages, such as English or Chinese, is a hallmark of human intelligence, and one of the core challenges in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Despite decades of AI research, the goal of building machines with human-level conversational fluency, as depicted by HAL and C3PO in science fiction, remains elusive and daunting. Ne...

This paper argues that corpus stylistics can contribute methodologies and concepts to support the investigation of character information in fiction. Focusing on Charles Dickens, the paper looks at lexicogrammatical patterns as well as places in the literary text. It suggests that clusters, i.e. repeated sequences of words, and suspensions, i.e. interruptions of charactersÿ speech by the narrato...