This paper presents three corpora with coreferential annotation of person entities for Portuguese, Galician and Spanish. They contain coreference links between several types of pronouns (including elliptical, possessive, indefinite, demonstrative, relative and personal clitic and non-clitic pronouns) and nominal phrases (including proper nouns). Some statistics have been computed, showing distr...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Stina Westman Name of the doctoral dissertation Journalistic Image Access: Description, Categorization and Searching Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Media Technology Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 87/2011 Field of research Media Technology Manuscript submitted 14 June 2011 Manu...

reading comprehension plays a central role in nonfiction general english university courses in different efl situations and one of the important factors affecting it is vocabulary size. accordingly, the present study aimed at investigating the effect of unknown vocabulary size on efl learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, 40 tefl freshmen were ed to participate in this study on the basis...

An experiment is described in which reporters captured realworld news stories as semantically structured representations of journalistic events and narratives, and preliminary results from the experiment are discussed. The experiment was conducted using the Structured Stories prototype platform, which provides a library of abstractions of journalistic events grounded in frame semantics. Realwor...

  This paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. The aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in English and published in England and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in Persian from Iranian publications. For this purpose, the frequency...

Any study of standards is complicated by the existence of numerous meanings of the term, which are often used virtually interchangeably. A few of these uses are most relevant to this book. It appears that the term fi rst came into general use in English at the Battle of the Standard in 1138. According to a contemporary observer, Richard of Hexham ([1138] 1988, 67), in this battle between the En...

Information is fundamental to Finance, and understanding how it flows from official sources to news agencies is a central problem. Readers need to digest information rapidly from high volume news feeds, which often contain duplicate and irrelevant stories, to gain a competitive advantage. We propose a text categorisation task over pairs of official announcements and news stories to identify whe...