With the rapid development of globalization and Internet, audiovisual translation plays a vital role in overcoming linguistic cultural differences promoting cross-cultural exchanges. Audiovisual texts are special text types expressed through images sounds, which requires to synchronize with visual image sound create orality dubbed language. In order recreate naturally-occurring spontaneous-soun...

In a compositional semantic theory it should be possible to determine the interpretation of each expression irrespective of the contexts in which it possibly occurs. However, in order to account for the inter-sentential anaphoric links a coherent text usually contains, it seems that each sentence in the text should be interpreted with respect to the context set up by the interpretation of the s...

Coh-Metrix is a linguistic tool used by many researchers to quickly measure cohesion and coherence of text. Because it is a free, easy to use, and quite efficient linguistic tool, it is widely used in academic research and analysis. The results of many of these studies are dependent on the accuracy of the Coh-Metrix tool. I will be testing the accuracy of CohMetrix, focusing on its analysis of ...

The use of discourse markers has been reported as one of the problems in crosscultural communication as well as one of the learning difficulties encountered by native speakers of Chinese and other Asian learners. However, sources of such difficulties or “ambiguity” have not been fully investigated or examined. Using elicited performance data produced by native speakers of Chinese and English re...

We present a first approach to the application of a data mining technique, Multiple Sequence Alignment, to the systematization of a polemic aspect of discourse, namely, the expression of contrast, concession, counterargument and semantically similar discursive relations. The representation of the phenomena under study is carried out by very simple techniques, mostly pattern-matching, but the re...

The talk will show how the disambiguation of discourse connectives can improve their automatic translation. Connectives are a class of frequent functional lexical items that play an important role in text readability and coherence. Longer-range context is taken into account to learn the signaled rhetorical relations. The labels obtained from a discourse connective classifier are then integrated...