the power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van dijk 1996). this potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. the major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...

This research explores the ability of grade 2 students to engage in productive discussion about the state of their knowledge building using group-level feedback tools to support their metadiscourse. Two aspects of knowledge work were common to the comparison and experimental classes: BKnowledge Building talk^ (KB talk) involving teacher-student discussions and the use of Knowledge Forum, an onl...

In this paper we present a versatile language processing tool that can be successfully used for many Balkan languages. For its work, this tool relies on several sophisticated textual and lexical resources that have been developed for most Balkan languages. These resources are based on several de facto standards in natural language processing.

In this paper a first implementation of a tool for valence shifting of natural language texts, named Valentino (VALENced Text INOculator), is presented. Valentino can modify existing textual expressions towards more positively or negatively valenced versions. To this end we built specific resources gathering various valenced terms that are semantically or contextually connected, and implemented...

We demonstrate the DiscOU engine implementing a resource discovery approach where the textual components of open educational resources are automatically annotated with relevant entities (using a named entity recognition system), so that these rich annotations can be searched by similarity, based on existing resources of interest.

Having in mind the importance that lexical resources play nowadays in natural language processing (NLP), this research aims the automatic creation of a lexical ontology for Portuguese. For its purpose, patterns in textual resources will be exploited in order to acquire relations between concepts. The ontology will be evaluated and then made available for the community.

Metadiscourse has been defined as the discourse used by writers to help their readers connect, interpret and evaluate attitudes towards referential material presented (Vande Kopple, 2002). In his study on CEO’s letters, Hyland (1998b) examined metadiscourse manifestation of a writer’s linguistic rhetorical presence in text looked at persuasive nature business communication. ...

The UNED-UV group at the ImageCLEF2013 Campaign have participated in the Scalable Concept Image Annotation subtask. We present a multimedia IR-based system for the annotation task. In this collection, the images do not have any textual description associated, so we have downloaded and preprocessed the web pages which contain the images. Regarding the concepts, we expanded their textual descript...

Anomaly detection has extensive use in a wide variety of applications, such techniques aim to and patterns in data that do not conform to expected behavior. In this work we apply anomaly detection to the task of discovering anomalies from user-generated content of commercial product descriptions. While most of the other works in literature rely exclusively on textual features, we combine those ...