Since the early development of interest in the interpersonal dimensions of academic communication in the 1980s, the analytic potentials of the concept of metadiscourse have motivated a large number of investigations. Although these analytic potentials have facilitated the study of diverse academic genres, there has always been a risk of detachment of textual analyses form the contextual origins...

This research investigates the problem of news articles classification. The classification is performed using N-gram textual features extracted from text and visual features generated from one representative image. The application domain is news articles written in English that belong to four categories: Business-Finance, Lifestyle-Leisure, Science-Technology and Sports downloaded from three we...

In this paper, we propose a pseudo-relevance feedbackmethod to deal with the photographic retrieval and medical retrieval tasks of ImageCLEF 2007. The aim of our participation to ImageCLEF is to evaluate a combination method using both english textual queries and image queries to answer to topics. The approach processes image queries and merges them with textual queries in order to improve resu...

In this paper the Quality measures of Multispectral images are analysed by using Textual features. An experimental result of textual features on different tasks in multispectral images vise TM, SAR is measured. Six different statistical moments based on common descriptors of the features are measured and based on those statistical moments, Quality measures are analyzed.

Users of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, or Twitter, are often overwhelmed by the huge amount of social data (friends’ updates and other activities). We propose using machine learning techniques to learn preferences of users and generate personalized recommendations. We apply four different machine learning techniques on previously rated activities and friends t...

Poetic analysis involves the explication of a poem by focusing on the process of semiosis in it. Through semiosis linguistic meaning is transformed into stylistic meaning. An examination of semiosis brings us to look at the hypersemanticized poetic structures which are none other than the style features of a poem. Since style functions in a literary text by conveying meanings other than literal...

Connor et al. (2008) mention “specifying textual requirements of genres” (p.12) as one of the reasons which have motivated researchers in the analysis of writing. Members of each genre should be able to produce and retrieve these textual requirements appropriately to be considered communicatively proficient. One of the textual requirements of genres is regularities of specific forms and content...