The paragraph spaces of five text corpora, of different genres and intended audiences, in four different languages, all show the same two-scale structure, with the dimension at short distances being lower than at long distances. In all five cases the short-distance dimension is approximately eight. Control simulations with randomly permuted word instances do not exhibit a low dimensional struct...

The English language has borrowed extensively from Latin. Despite their widely acknowledged importance, however, Latinate words are under-studied especially quantitatively according to their use across different linguistic settings. In this paper, we report a corpus-based survey of Latinate words and their use in contemporary English. The objective is to chart the use and distribution of Latina...

This paper claims that reliance on discourse focus to guide the production of rhetorically structured texts is insufficient over lengthier stretches of prose. Instead, this paper argues that at least three distinct attentional constraints are required: discourse focus [Sidner, 1979, 1983; Grosz and Sidner, 1986], temporal focus [Webber, 1988], and a novel notion of spatial focus. The paper illu...

In this paper we present a case study focusing on the literature genre, in particular on Italian fictional prose, aimed at identifying the features characterizing this text type. Identified features were tested in two classification tasks, i.e. by genre and by readability, with promising results. Interestingly, the same multi–level set of linguistic features turned out to reliably capture varia...

in the history of persian fiction, there have been created works of art, corresponding to their time’s intellectual and cultural necessities and needs; if being read through by a reconsidering approach, they not only may refer to individual and social psychology of iranian people of the era “jamshid and khorshid” the poem (778 ah) is one of these works that has considerable potentials for empha...