Transitional expressions provide glue that holds ideas together in a text and enhance the logical organization, which together help improve readability of a text. However, in most current statistical machine translation (SMT) systems, the outputs of compound-complex sentences still lack proper transitional expressions. As a result, the translations are often hard to read and understand. To addr...

As a grammatical device, Theme-Rheme structure plays an important role in organizing and analyzing discourse. Theme Progression patterns (hereinafter called TP patterns) are significant method of the analysis of textual cohesion and organization. Based on linguist Danes’ theory about TP patterns, this paper tries to present a contrastive analysis of the texts of consecutive interpretation in En...

The research was conducted to analyze cohesion and coherence used on 20 student’s narrative writing in SMAN 4 Praya. Descriptive qualitative method this by collecting data from students assignments. Then, classifying the findings using theory introduced Halliday Hasan (1976). results obtained were: (a) grammatical cohesion; reference 61.09%, substitution 13.53%, ellipsis 04.88%, conjunction 26....

This research aimed to find out how the thematic progression structure is applied in background of students’ project proposal and functions achieve cohesion proposal. The objectives this were explain function studies section final used a descriptive qualitative approach. Fifteen proposals as source data. findings reveal that constant theme was primarily pattern thematization organize writings. ...

Received wisdom in Primary science classroom teaching advocates the use of open questions for elicitation. The sociocultural perspective on discourse, however, leads one to question the usual classification of questioning by its grammatical formality and leads instead to an analysis of the discourse in the socio-cultural context which includes the background of the children. In this paper we de...

Our summarization approach is based on the assumption that quality of the summary is influenced by a set of factors, dependent on lexical and grammatical features of text units selected and arranged while composing the summary. The system has been developed with taking into account six factors influencing the final quality: compliance with the genre "summary", relevance, focusing, compliance wi...

The developing system described here is planned to provide the business executive with useful applications for the computer processing of correspondence in the office environment. Applications will include the synopsis and abstraction of incoming mail and a variety of critiques of newly-generated letters, all based upon the capability of understanding the natural language text at least to a lev...