First appearances suggest that probability operators (is as likely as, probably, is more likely than, etc) should be treated together with what we might call pure modal talk (might, may, ought, must, possibly, necessarily, etc) because: • They are non-truth-functional operators on propositions. • They interact logically with epistemic modals: R3. Must to probably. It must be that Probably R4. P...

Gender-based research on the language use in blogs has its roots in the long-standing notion that men and women speak and write differently. This paper reports an empirical study on the use of English in a blog context involving Malaysian blog authors. Specifically, the study aimed to identify gender-specific English use among Malaysian blog authors and determine the differences in the language...

In this manuscript, we present our efforts to develop an accurate sentiment analysis model for Bosnian-language tweets which incorporated three elements: negation cues, AnA-words (referring maximizers, boosters, approximators, relative intensifiers, diminishers, and minimizers), sentiment-labeled words from a lexicon. We used several machine-learning techniques, including SVM, Naive Bayes, RF, ...

Drawing on a corpus of clickbait headlines (Chakraborty et al., 2016) and using ideas from the relevance-theoretic pragmatic framework (Sperber Wilson, 1986/95), this paper examines some ways in which writers arouse curiosity their readers by creating an “information gap” (Loewenstein, 1994). Comparative analysis is combined with close illustrative examples to explore contribution that particul...

The studies revealed the regularities of obtaining bioactivated sea buckthorn seeds using plasma-chemically activated aqueous solutions during germination. Sea were chosen as research object. Plasma-chemically used to activate germination process. This made it possible solve problem processing waste from production oil, and also contributed a high-quality component food products. Experimental h...

Even though intensifiers have received a good deal of attention over the past few decades, downtoners, comprising diminishers and minimizers, remained by large neglected category (but cf. Brinton, this issue). Among adverb little or stands out as most frequent item. It is multifunctional serves diminishing minimizing intensifier also in non-degree uses quantifier, frequentative, durative. There...

To avoid a sarcastic message being understood in its unintended literal meaning, in microtexts such as messages on Twitter.com sarcasm is often explicitly marked with the hashtag ‘#sarcasm’. We collected a training corpus of about 78 thousand Dutch tweets with this hashtag. Assuming that the human labeling is correct (annotation of a sample indicates that about 85% of these tweets are indeed sa...

This paper describes a contrast-based monochromatic fusion process. The fusion process is aimed for on board real time application and it is based on practical and computationally efficient image processing components. The process maximizes the information content in the combined image, while retaining visual clues that are essential for navigation/piloting tasks. The method is a multi scale fu...

This research examined students’ language use and interaction styles in text-based, computermediated discussion groups. The contributions of 197 introductory psychology students (149 females, 48 males) participating in asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) were collated. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used, under the methodological framework of qualitative content a...

To avoid a sarcastic message being understood in its unintended literal meaning, in microtexts such as messages on Twitter.com sarcasm is often explicitly marked with a hashtag such as ‘#sarcasm’. We collected a training corpus of about 406 thousand Dutch tweets with hashtag synonyms denoting sarcasm. Assuming that the human labeling is correct (annotation of a sample indicates that about 90% o...