Research in multi-document summarization has focused on newswire corpora since the early beginnings. However, the newswire genre provides genre-specific features such as sentence position which are easy to exploit in summarization systems. Such easy to exploit genre-specific features are available in other genres as well. We therefore present the new hMDS corpus for multi-document summarization...

La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo Córdoba shows how the connection between Lope Vega's work and pre-journalistic genres can reveal significant clues to interpret Fénix theater and, in particular, one dedicated contemporary historical events. The relaciones sucesos provide not only a fruitful source through which author elaborates data, chooses anecdotes, weaves plots, but model of writing that a...

Abstract Lexical bundles are highly frequent and functionally significant in written academic discourse. Many studies have explored lexical through a disciplinary lens, but their findings not typically incorporated into published L2 teaching-learning materials. As result, there number of challenges facing teachers who want to include focus on writing instruction at tertiary level. This paper de...

Folklore and literature are linked concepts, but so far no one theory has satisfactorily explained the nature of their relationship. Attempts have been made to establish the connection between them in terms of history, evolution, communication, and social systems. According to the historical approach, folklore consists of elementary forms which increase in formal and semantic complexity until t...

The following article was written in the style of my good friend the writer and cognitive scientist Doug Hofstadter. It was written not by a human being, but by my computer program EWI (an acronym for " experiments in writing intelligence "). EWI was fed the texts of two of Hofstadter's books—namely, Gödel, Escher, Bach (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1980) and Metamagic...

A number of perennial doubts plague genre theory. Are genres really 'out there' in the world, or are they merely the constructions of analysts? Is there a finite taxonomy of genres or are they in principle infinite? Are genres timeless Platonic essences or ephemeral, time-bound entities? Are genres culturebound or transcultural?... Should genre analysis be descriptive or proscriptive? (Stam 200...