This study explored the effect of text cohesion on reading comprehension of challenging science texts among students with little topic-relevant knowledge. Introductory level psychology students, considered to have a low level of knowledge on the topic, read high and low cohesion versions of biology texts. After reading the texts, their comprehension of the texts was assessed with text-based or ...

The paper presents a bilingual English-Spanish parallel corpus aligned at the paragraph level. The corpus consists of twelve large novels found in Internet and converted into text format with manual correction of formatting problems and errors. We used a dictionary-based algorithm for automatic alignment of the corpus. Evaluation of the results of alignment is given. There are very few availabl...

new criticism focuses on rigorous analysis of poetry and literature, irrespective of peripheral issues. its fundamental tenet is the autonomy of literary texts. therefore, new criticism shuns dealing with such peripheral issues as authors’ biography, social, political and historical events; since this approach considers all these issues as non-artistic. in principle, the followers of new critic...

mystical texts are the most important texts have been set to convey epistemic teachings and to influence the audiences concerned with awareness and esoteric training.  therefore it seems that specific techniques have been used in rhetoric to fulfill this objective. according to the style of speech in mystical texts, they can be considered as rhetoricals. reviewing the concept of rhetoric and it...

stemming is the process of finding the main morpheme of a word andit is used in natural language processing, text mining and informationretrieval systems. a stemmer extracts the stem of the words. we can classifypersian stemmers in to three main classes: structural stemmers, dictionarybased stemmers and  statistical stemmers.the precision of structural stemmers is low and the expenses of dictio...

The linguistic characteristics of Oriental languages and Indo-European languages are very different. Using purely length-based algorithm could not produce high performance on aligning texts. This paper investigates the effectiveness of critical part-of-speech (POS) criterion on alignment under conditions of different search strategies and different register texts. Two metrics, recall and precis...