Beginning in the first century AD, Buddhist texts underwent a series of translations during a period of nearly 1300 years. The identification of the translator, textual apocrypha, and translation style in Buddhist texts are always important issues. This study proposes an approach to find the most discriminative features that characterize the different Buddhist translation texts or other transla...

Construction of 100 million words balanced corpus of contemporary written Japanese is underway at the National Institute for Japanese Language. The unique property of the corpus consists in that the majority of its sample texts are selected randomly from well-defined statistical populations covering wide range of written texts.

We analyze the rank-frequency distributions of words in selected English and Polish texts. We compare scaling properties of these distributions in both languages. We also study a few small corpora of Polish literary texts and find that for a corpus consisting of texts written by different authors the basic scaling regime is broken more strongly than in the case of comparable corpus consisting o...

Since the late 50’s and Luhn [Luh58] the information community has expressed its interest in summarizing texts. The domains of application of such methodologies are countless, ranging from news summarization [WL03, BM05, ROWBG05] to scientific article summarization [TM02] and meeting summarization [NPDP05, ELH03]. Summarization has been defined as a reductive transformation of a given set of te...

The information obtained from the Web is increasingly important for decision making and for our everyday tasks. Due to the growth of uncertified sources, blogosphere, comments in the social media and automatically generated texts, the need to measure the quality of text information found on the Internet is becoming of crucial importance. It has been suggested that factual density can be used to...

purpose: the present study seeks to explore the effects of general language proficiency, text readability, and medical knowledge on comprehending medical texts. material & method: 63 medical students in the second year of their study were randomly selected from the english language classes. they answered 100 multiple-choice questions on grammar and vocabulary to establish the level of language ...

The present study investigated how consequence value influences affect, attention, and learning while reading instructional texts, and if text difficulty moderates these effects. Participants studied four instructional texts on research methods in a 2 × 2 consequence value (high vs. low) × text difficulty (easy vs. difficult) within-subjects experiment. Consequence value was manipulated by assi...

This paper presents algorithms for encryption and decryption developed using pseudo random number generator (PRNG) and non-Linear functions. PRNG used in the work are matlab random number generator (RNG) and Linear congruential generator (LCG). The developed algorithms are named according to PRNG used in it. State of PRNG is considered as secret key of the cipher. The encryption schemes have be...

this study is the result of an attempt to investigate the differences between the persian translated drama text (page) of each english drama text with its performance on the stage (stage) in iran. in other words, the present researchers tried to find the implemented changes in page which make it real on the stage in the target language and culture in order to show that in drama translating and ...