We discuss bridge relations in Dutch between two textual referents across six di↵erent text genres. After briefly presenting the annotation guidelines and inter-annotation agreement results, we conduct an in-depth manual analysis of the di↵erent types of bridge relations found in our data sets. This analysis reveals that for all genres bridging references stand mostly in a class relationship, w...

Although past research has explored the association between media of many forms (e.g., TV, music, advertising) and sexual socialization, books are 1 form of media that has largely been ignored with respect to this topic. The current study examined the relationship between lifetime exposure to different genres of text and sexual attitudes, including gender role stereotyping and sexual conservati...

Compilation of a 100 million words balanced corpus called the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (or BCCWJ) is underway at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. The corpus covers a wide range of text genres including books, magazines, newspapers, governmental white papers, textbooks, minutes of the National Diet, internet text (bulletin board and blogs) and...

In this paper, we propose the use of automatic text classification methods to analyse variation in English-German translations from both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. The experiments described in this paper are carried out in two steps. We trained classifiers to 1) discriminate between different genres (fiction, political essays, etc.); and 2) identify the translation method (ma...

Argumentative texts have been thoroughly analyzed for their argumentative structure, and recent efforts aim at their automatic classification. This work investigates linguistic properties of argumentative texts and text passages in terms of their semantic clause types. We annotate argumentative texts with Situation Entity (SE) classes, which combine notions from lexical aspect (states, events) ...

This work addresses the problem of genre classification of text and speech transcripts, with the goal of handling genres not seen in training. Two frameworks employing different statistics on word/POS histograms with a PCA transform are examined: a single model for each genre and a factored representation of genre. The impact of the two frameworks on the classification of training-matched and n...

Since the 1990s, the Brown ‘family’ corpora have been widely used for various diachronic studies of 20th century English language. However, the existing methodologies failed to exploit its full potential as they only used the four main text categories. In this paper, we present the results of two experiments on diachronic changes of the Coleman-Liau readability Index (CLI) in British and Americ...