This paper describes our current experiments in snippet generation and tweet contextualization. These experiments are based on work reported in 2011 [2] and 2012 [1] and represent refinements of those earlier techniques. Four of our snippet generation runs produced top-ranked results in the INEX 2012 competition; these serve as the basis for our 2013 experiments in snippet generation. Our 2013 ...

The Internet offers unlimited possibilities for finding health information. However, the user is often faced with the problem of understanding it. Contextualization has a role to play in enhancing the user's comprehension. We report on a study which addresses this issue, using a theoretical model of communication whose central theme is that of context. A randomized controlled experimental desig...

Skills in reading, writing, and mathematics are key to academic learning but are conventionally taught separately from the discipline areas to which they must be applied. For example, students may be taught writing skills in the morning in an English course and then be expected to apply them to writing an essay in a history class in the afternoon. Several problems arise with this structure. Fir...

The paper presents a novel approach to automatic multidocument summarization applied for short message contextualization. The proposed method is based on named entity recognition, part-ofspeech weighting and sentence quality measuring. In contrast to previous research, we introduced an algorithm of smoothing from the local context. Our approach exploits topic-comment structure of a text. Moreov...

This paper proposes a normative structure to represent and analyze sets of norms that takes into consideration both the interrelationships between different norms and the context of their applications. This extends current approaches where relations between norms are not explicitly considered. More importantly, the explicit representation of institutional contexts on norms facilitates a context...

I would like to focus my remarks on John Gumperz’s notion of a contextualization cue, which I think is central to his current programme. However, before I begin, I would like to make some more general remarks on that programme and its place both in Gumperz’s overall oeuvre and in discourse studies generally. As Di Luzio sketches in his contribution to this volume, Gumperz had a. previous incarn...