Information extraction/retrieval has been of interest to researchers since the early 1960's. A series of conferences and competitions have been held by DARPA/NIST since the late 1980's has resulted in the analysis of news reports and government reports in English and other languages, notably Chinese and Arabic. A number of methods have been developed for analysing `free' natural language texts....

despite the body of research on textbook evaluation from the discourse analysis perspective, cohesive devices have rarely been analyzed in english for specific purposes (esp) textbooks. the acquisition and use of cohesive devices is inherent to naturalistic communication, including business interactions. hence, l2 learners of business english should be exposed to these devices through cohesion-...

There is a general interest in corpora of human authored texts as a source for acquiring domain knowledge useful for a natural language generation (NLG) system. It is less clear, however, how this can be done in a systematic way. We propose a principled approach towards acquiring domain knowledge through corpus analysis and illustrate its application in the domain of route descriptions. More sp...

This paper is concerned with the analysis of the spoken language of teenagers, taken from a newly developed specialised corpus the British and Taiwanese Teenage Intercultural Communication Corpus (BATTICC). More specifically, the study employs a discourse analytical approach to examine vague language in an intercultural context among a group of British and Taiwanese adolescents, paying particul...