There were three GREC Tasks at Generation Challenges 2010: GREC-NER required participating systems to identify all people references in texts; for GRECNEG, systems selected coreference chains for all people entities in texts; and GRECFull combined the NER and NEG tasks, i.e. systems identified and, if appropriate, replaced references to people in texts. Five teams submitted 10 systems in total,...

Influencing the public attitude towards certain topics had become one of the strongest weapons in today’s information warfare. The ability to recognize a presence of propaganda in newspaper texts is thus a treasured phenomenon, which is not directly transferable to algorithmic analysis. In the current paper, we present the first steps of the project aiming at detection and recognition of select...

In this article, we present the on-line interface that we have developed for the RST Spanish Treebank, the first corpus including Spanish texts annotated with rhetorical relations. This interface allows users to consult or download the texts and their corresponding annotations. In addition, it allows carrying out several tasks over a selected subcorpus: searching statistics in terms of words, r...

The article presents the author's experience in developing an ESP (English for Specific Purposes) course International Relations and Regional Studies majors looks at theoretical background LSP design. Choosing between terminological discursive approach to design sphere of humanities, authors favour latter. also provides a quick look integrative mastering English Special Purposes offered by West...

In this paper we introduce RHeSumaRST, a heuristics based system that aims at pruning an RST tree in order to yield its corresponding summary. Those heuristics focus especially on identifying when a discursive segment that embed an anaphoric term is chosen to compose the summary, in which case the discursive segment that embed its antecedent must also be chosen. To both address referentiality a...

Diction conveys a wide array of meanings of which formality and emotionality are only two facets. Researchers have investigated various features of written discourse to capture discourse variation in L1 and L2 writings. Likewise, the present ex-post-facto study compared the formality and emotionality of diction in general and emotional English and Farsi texts produced by 20 MA students at Islam...