More than forty years after its initial publication, Frederick Mosteller and David Wallace's Inference and Disputed Authorship: The Federalist is an excellent introduction to the application of exact techniques to various problems in the analysis of text; in some respects it is still unequaled. Given the way the computer has revolutionized exact textual analysis in the last thirty years, and in...

In this paper we describe a rule-based formalism for the analysis and labelling of texts segments. The rules are contextual rewriting rules with a restricted form of negation. They allow to underspecify text segments not considered relevant to a given task and to base decisions upon context. A parser for these rules is presented and consistence and completeness issues are discussed. Some result...

The demand for fast access of multimedia content is growing exponentially, but unfortunately the advancement in technology is not so fast. A variety of annotation techniques are proposed by the researcher in literature, but still the demand for general annotation mechanism is exists. Among different techniques available for annotation the text analysis is the first hand technique that allows th...

This paper is concerned with the robust analysis of the discourse structure of a text via underspecification. Most current discourse theories (e.g. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) by Mann and Thompson (1988), Abduction by Hobbs et al. (1993) or Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) by Asher (1993)) require detailed world and context knowledge for the derivation of the discourse str...

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