Appropriate reference to other texts is an essential feature of most academic writing, and we should expect courses in academic writing to sensitize students to the choices that are available to them when they decide to refer to other texts. A brief review of popular EAP writing textbooks finds, however, that attention is given mainly to surface features of citation, focusing on quotation, summ...

As the text databases available to users become larger and more heterogeneous, genre becomes increasingly important for computational linguistics as a complement to topical and structural principles of classification. We propose a theory of genres as bundles of facets, which correlate with various surface cues, and argue that genre detection based on surface cues is as successful as detection b...

This paper proposes a novel approach for describing the expressive elements in text genres and modeling their acoustic correlates for expressive text-to-speech synthesis (TTS). We apply the three-dimensional PAD (pleasure-displeasure, arousal-nonarousal and dominance-submissiveness) model in describing expressivity. In particular, we define a set of principles for annotating the P and A values ...

We investigate sentence deletion and split decisions in Spanish text simplification for two different corpora aimed at different groups of users. We analyse sentence transformations in two parallel corpora of original and manually simplified texts for two different types of users and then conduct two classification experiments: classifying between those sentences to be deleted and those to be k...

Texts are composed for multiple audiences and numerous purposes. Each form of text follows a set guidelines structure to serve the purpose writing. A common way grouping texts is into types. Describing these types in terms their linguistic characteristics called ‘linguistic profiling texts’. In this paper, we highlight features that characterize type. The findings present study importance parts...

This study draws on Systemic Functional Linguistics and Cognitive Theory to explore genre blending in Amos 5. It demonstrates that 5 is both a plausibly cohesive coherent text, the text made up of sub-sections identifiably distinct genres prophetic literature.

This paper examines some suitability aspects of existing web search engines in relation to the content and the stated learning objectives of language teaching in Cypriot secondary education, focusing on the language course of the third high school grade (G9). The end goal is to put the internet in the service of schooling; specifically to categorize the results returned by the search engine int...

We introduce the Free Music Archive (FMA), an open and easily accessible dataset which can be used to evaluate several tasks in music information retrieval (MIR), a field concerned with browsing, searching, and organizing large music collections. The community’s growing interest in feature and end-to-end learning is however restrained by the limited availability of large audio datasets. By rele...

We present a classification-based word prediction model based on IGTREE, a decision-tree induction algorithm with favorable scaling abilities and a functional equivalence to n-gram models with backoff smoothing. Through a first series of experiments, in which we train on Reuters newswire text and test either on the same type of data or on general or fictional text, we demonstrate that the syste...

Research was carried out with twenty-seven games players, using a number of techniques. This was academic research, but intended to be useful in the development of existing and new genres of game. Considering the future application of such techniques, perhaps outside academia, their cost-benefit will be important. The authors report both on what they discovered about the two games studied, and ...