This paper discusses the improvements that critical-complex pedagogy proposes to present situation analysis – a fundamental pre-course investigation of students’ communicative and learning needs wants in English for Specific Purposes literature. The expands beyond rhetorical linguistic conventions target discourse. A three-phase design an online Critical Academic course is presented demonstrate...

This study presents the results of an initial phase of a project seeking to convert texts into a more accessible form for people with autism spectrum disorders by means of text simplification technologies. Random samples of Simple Wikipedia articles are compared with texts from News, Health, and Fiction genres using four standard readability indices (Kincaid, Flesch, Fog and SMOG) and sixteen l...

This paper presents steps in accessing Thai phoneme distribution from large-scale written Thai corpora. The data were from 12 text genres from InterBEST [1], considered the biggest Thai corpora. Each word was transliterated using the grapheme-to-phoneme software [2]. Then, frequency of words, frequency of 81 Thai phonemes in each genre, and the 95% CIs of average occurrences of each phoneme wer...

As many popular text genres such as blogs or news contain opinions by multiple sources and about multiple targets, finding the sources and targets of subjective expressions becomes an important sub-task for automatic opinion analysis systems. We argue that while automatic semantic role labeling systems (ASRL) have an important contribution to make, they cannot solve the problem for all cases. B...

Despite sequences being core to NLP, scant work has considered how to handle noisy sequence labels from multiple annotators for the same text. Given such annotations, we consider two complementary tasks: (1) aggregating sequential crowd labels to infer a best single set of consensus annotations; and (2) using crowd annotations as training data for a model that can predict sequences in unannotat...

The style in which a text is written re ects an array of meta-information concerning the text (e.g., topic, register, genre) and its author (e.g., gender, region, age, personality). The eld of stylometry addresses these aspects of style. A successful methodology, borrowed from text categorisation research, takes a two-stage approach which (i) achieves automatic selection of features with high p...

Human-computer dialogue systems interact with human users using natural language. We used the ALICE/AIML chatbot architecture as a platform to develop a range of chatbots covering different languages, genres, text-types, and user-groups, to illustrate qualitative aspects of natural language dialogue system evaluation. We present some of the different evaluation techniques used in natural langua...

These working notes summarise a genre theory that accounts for document layout in a three part communication model that recognises not only the effort of the writer to set out a topic and the purposeful effort by a reader to access information, but also the professional and manufacturing processes that intervene. I suggest that layout genres use conventions that at some historical point are roo...

Syntactic transformation based(ST) steganography performs embedding operations of secret information by meaning-preserving syntactic transformations into sentences of a text. The syntactic transformations caused the difference of the occurrence frequency among different semantically equivalent syntactic structures vary between the cover texts and stego texts. A steganalysis method is therefore ...