This article provides the commented English translation of an ode (“To Milton”, composed twelve stanzas) by 18th-century Brazilian poet, Claudio Manuel da Costa. Our interpretation translated poem problematizes fact that Costa did not translate Milton’s works, but he wrote intersemiotic contributions to literature as a whole. “To Milton” concentrates and expands on themes related Paradise Lost ...

A picture is worth a thousand words, but a few words can greatly enhance a picture. It is common to find textual and diagrammatic components complement each other in enterprise models in general, and business process models in particular. Previous work has considered the question of the relative understandability of diagrammatic versus textual representations of process models for different typ...

Implicit networks that describe latent entity relations have been demonstrated to be valuable tools in information retrieval, knowledge extraction, and search in document collections. While such implicit relations offer less insight into the types of connection between entities than traditional knowledge bases, they are much easier to extract from unstructured textual sources. Furthermore, they...

The constant growth of digital information, facilitated by storage technologies, imposes new challenges for information processing tasks, and maintains the need of effective search mechanisms, oriented towards improving in precision but simultaneously capable of producing useful information in a short time. Hence, this paper presents a document representation to encode textual relations. This r...

Using distributional analysis methods to compute semantic proximity links between words has become commonplace in NLP. The resulting relations are often noisy or difficult to interpret in general. This paper focuses on the issues of evaluating a distributional resource and filtering the relations it contains, but instead of considering it in abstracto, we focus on pairs of words in context. In ...

We present a tool for developing tree structure patterns that makes it easy to define the relations among textual phrases and create a search index for these newly defined relations. By using the proposed tool, users develop tree structure patterns through abstracting syntax trees. The tool features (1) intuitive pattern syntax, (2) unique functions such as recursive call of patterns and lexico...

The Text2Dialogue (T2D) system that we are developing allows digital content creators to generate attractive multi-modal dialogues presented by two virtual agents—by simply providing textual information as input. We use Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) to decompose text into segments and to identify rhetorical discourse relations between them. These are then “acted out” by two 3D agents using ...

HistoryViz provides a new perspective on a certain kind of textual data, in particular the data available in the Wikipedia, where different entities are described and put in historical perspective. Instead of browsing through pages each describing a certain topic, we can look at the relations between entities and events connected with the selected entities. The presented solution implemented in...

The Text2Dialogue (T2D) system that we are developing allows digital content creators to generate attractive multi-modal dialogues presented by two virtual agents—by simply providing textual information as input. We use Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) to decompose text into segments and to identify rhetorical discourse relations between them. These are then “acted out” by two 3D agents using ...