The paper presents a rule-based information extraction (IE) system for Polish medical texts. We select the most important information from diabetic patients’ records. Most data being processed are free-form texts, only a part is in table form. The work has three goals: to test classical IE methods on texts in Polish, to create relational database containing the extracted data, and to prepare an...

We investigate linguistic features that correlate with the readability of texts for adults with intellectual disabilities (ID). Based on a corpus of texts (including some experimentally measured for comprehension by adults with ID), we analyze the significance of novel discourselevel features related to the cognitive factors underlying our users’ literacy challenges. We develop and evaluate a t...

In order to control the quality of internet-based language corpora, we developed a method to verify automatically that texts are of (near-) native quality. For the LOCNESS and ICLE corpora, the method is rather successful in separating native and non-native learner texts. The Equal Error Rate is about 10%. However, for other domains, such as internet texts, separate classifiers have to be train...

5 Texts in a natural image directly carry rich high-level semantic information about a scene, which can 6 be used to assist a wide variety of applications, such as image understanding, image indexing and search, 7 geolocation or navigation, and human computer interaction. However, most existing text detection and 8 recognition systems are designed for horizontal or near-horizontal texts. With t...

Text reuse is commonplace in academia and the media. An efficient algorithm for automatically detecting and measuring similar/related texts would have applications in corpus linguistics, historical studies and natural language engineering. In an effort to explore the issue of text reuse, a tool, named Crouch, has been developed based on the TESAS system (Piao 2001) for comparing and measuring t...

this article is an attempt first to introduce translation as a linguistic-cultural process, and then to seek the impact of the english language on persian modal auxiliaries. parallel corpora of persian translated and original texts derived from the area of educational psychology were analyzed based on the theoretical framework of house (1997, 2001). the results show us that although the discour...

Texts in natural scenes carry rich semantic information, which can be used to assist a wide range of applications, such as object recognition, image/video retrieval, mapping/navigation, and human computer interaction. However, most existing systems are designed to detect and recognize horizontal (or near-horizontal) texts. Due to the increasing popularity of mobile-computing devices and applica...

Parallel corpora — original texts aligned with their translations — are a widely used resource in computational linguistics. Translation studies have shown that translated texts often differ systematically from comparable original texts. Translators tend to be faithful to structures of the original texts, resulting in a “shining through” of the original language preferences in the translated te...

This study aimed to explore the function and frequency of textual metadiscourse markers (MDMs) in scientific English and Persian texts. Based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of textual markers characterizing the selected genre, four different textbooks, two written in English and two in Persian were analyzed to identify the textual metadiscourse categories (including logical marker...

As the number of scholarly encoded digital texts is increasing, creating models of these kinds of texts with the help of digital tools is becoming more and more interesting. In connection with this type of work, it is important to have a clear understanding of what these particular models are based on. They will clearly be based on certain readings of the source texts, but we need to keep track...