Creationism is a religiously motivated worldview in denial of biological evolution that has been very resistant to change. We performed a textual analysis by examining creationist and pro-evolutionary texts for aspects of "experiential thinking", a cognitive process different from scientific thought. We observed characteristics of experiential thinking as follows: testimonials (present in 100% ...

With the ever increasing amount of data directly accessible by end-users one needs to find new ways of reviewing and managing vast quantities of textual information. The techniques of lexical analysis can extend the effectiveness of research by aiding the rapid reading and interpretation of large texts via lexical approximation and textual data analysis. By adding interactive navigation systems...

In this work a proposal for automatic textual segmentation is described. The proposal uses the output of an automatic syntactic analyzer – Parser Palavras – to create textual segmentation. Parse trees are used to infer text segments and a dependency tree of the identified segments. The main contribution of this work is the use of the syntactic structure as source for the automatic segmentation ...

An approach, called map analysis, for extracting, analyzing and combining representations of individual’s mental models as cognitive maps is presented. This textual analysis technique allows the researcher to extract cognitive maps, locate similarities across maps, and combine maps to generate a team map. Using map analysis the researcher can address questions about the nature of team mental mo...

In this paper, we address exploratory analysis of textual data streams and we propose a bootstrapping process based on a combination of keyword similarity and clustering techniques to: i) classify documents into fine-grained similarity clusters, based on keyword commonalities; ii) aggregate similar clusters into larger document collections sharing a richer, more user-prominent keyword set that ...

Super Mario Galaxy has been almost universally lauded as an enchanting, almost magical game, but what meaning is there to be found within the text? What does the entire experience actually represent and communicate to the player on the whole? With many now wondering what more could possibly be done to advance the classic 3D platformer, this paper aims to examine in depth what transforms Super M...

Textual entailment among sentences is an important part of applied semantic inference. In this paper we propose a novel technique to address the recognizing textual entailment challenge, which based on the distribution hypothesis that words that tend to occur in the same contexts tend to have similar meanings. Using the IDF of the overlapping words between the two propositions, we calculate the...

This paper proposes a general probabilistic setting that formalizes a probabilistic notion of textual entailment. We further describe a particular preliminary model for lexical-level entailment, based on document cooccurrence probabilities, which follows the general setting. The model was evaluated on two application independent datasets, suggesting the relevance of such probabilistic approache...