Summarizing document texts at various levels of detail is required for many information selection tasks. For instance, when loading and visualizing documents on small screens of handheld devices, it is important to be able to dynamically compress texts. In this article we discuss a technique of generating hierarchical topic trees of a text and to use them in various ways to build summaries of a...

In this paper, we propose an approach to explore large texts by highlighting coherent sub-parts. The exploration method relies on a graph representation of the text according to Hoey’s linguistic model which allows the selection and the binding of adjacent and non-adjacent sentences. The main contribution of our work consists in proposing a method based on both Hoey’s linguistic model and a spe...

with the growth of social,cultural and religious exchanges in the world, the translation of religious-islamic texts into german has been spreading in iran.in this way,there is a special sensitivity in translation that the translators face and difficulties which are sometimes insolvable.this sensitivity involves both the structure and content of the texts, because errors and mistakes in the tran...

We describe the background for and building of IcePaHC, a one million word parsed historical corpus of Icelandic which has just been finished. This corpus which is completely free and open contains fragments of 60 texts ranging from the late 12 century to the present. We describe the text selection and text collecting process and discuss the quality of the texts and their conversion to modern I...

We report on experiments to test the effectiveness of controlled language (CL) rules on texts from Japanese municipal websites. We compiled a set of rules by trial and error, systematically rewriting Japanese source texts and analysing the machine translation (MT) outputs. We then employed native English speakers with little knowledge of Japanese as human evaluators and tested the understandabi...

The relaxed Hilberg conjecture states that the mutual information between two adjacent blocks of text in natural language grows as a power of the block length. The present paper reviews recent results concerning this conjecture. First, the relaxed Hilberg conjecture occurs when the texts repeatedly describe a random reality and Herdan’s law for facts repeatedly described in the texts is obeyed....

This study focuses on a central question: “What strategies do students’ use and what difficulties do they feel when organising, in note form, written argumentative texts?” while simultaneously exploring constructivism and on-line collaborative pair work (dyads). The objective is to observe the practices and difficulties felt by students at the University of Aveiro when working on written argume...

This paper describes a bilingual text-to-speech (TTS) system, Microsoft Mulan, which switches between Mandarin and English smoothly and which maintains the sentence level intonation even for mixed-lingual texts. Mulan is constructed on the basis of the Soft Prediction Only prosodic strategy and the Prosodic-Constraint Orient unit-selection strategy. The unitselection module of Mulan is shared a...

The presented work is strongly motivated by the need of modelling functional style (FS) as well as categorising unrestricted texts in terms of FS in order to attain a satisfying outcome in style processing. Towards this end, it is given a three-level description of FS that comprises: (a) the basic categories of FS, (b) the main features that characterise each one of the above categories, and (c...

In this paper, a new feature for text verification is proposed. The difficulties for the selection of features for text verification (FTV) are first discussed, followed by two principles for the FTV: the FTV should minimize the influence of backgrounds, and it should also be expressive enough for all the texts varied in structures prominently. In this paper, we exploit different block partition...