in this study, van dijk’s (1998) model of cda was utilized in order to examine the representation of iran’s nuclear program in editorials published by british news casting companies. the analysis of the editorials was carried out at two levels of headlines and full text stories with regard to the linguistic features of lexical choices, nominalization, passivization, overcompleteness, and voice....

In an experiment stylistic choices in the new Dutch Bible translation were evaluated. 185 participants evaluated 4 fragments which differed type of variation (lexical or syntactic), source fragment (Bible - classical text) and way variations applied (single mixed). Also religious¬ness evaluator was taken into account. Examined is whether lexical modernization syntactic simplification are same, ...

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) provides a low-level general model to describe relationships between objects. Its ultimate goal is to permit the representation, combination and processing of most kinds of metadata or knowledge from Web-accessible documents or databases. Metadata resources can then be processed for information retrieval, filtering, personalizing, aggregation or manageme...

We address the problem that different users have different lexical knowledge about problem domains, so that automated dialogue systems need to adapt their generation choices online to the users’ domain knowledge as it encounters them. We approach this problem using policy learning in Markov Decision Processes (MDP). In contrast to related work we propose a new statistical user model which incor...

The earliest work on automatic detection of implicit discourse relations relied on lexical features. More recently, researchers have demonstrated that syntactic features are superior to lexical features for the task. In this paper we re-examine the two classes of state of the art representations: syntactic production rules and word pair features. In particular, we focus on the need to reduce sp...

Cyclone is a type-safe programming language intended for applications requiring control over memory management. Our previous work on Cyclone included support for stack allocation, lexical region allocation, and a garbage-collected heap. We achieved safety (i.e., prevented dangling pointers) through a region-based type-and-effects system. This paper describes some new memory-management mechanism...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed analysis of how lexical differences related to cohesion and connectionist models can distinguish first language (L1) writers of English from second language (L2) writers of English. Key to this analysis is the use of the computational tool Coh-Metrix, which measures cohesion and text difficulty at various levels of language, discourse, and conc...

Language is rife with ambiguity. Do children and adults meet this challenge in similar ways? Recent work suggests that while adults resolve syntactic ambiguities by integrating a variety of cues, children are less sensitive to top-down evidence. We test whether this top-down insensitivity is specific to syntax or a general feature of children's linguistic ambiguity resolution by evaluating whet...

A common observation in dialogue research is that people tend to entrain, or align, linguistically with their interlocutors. This phenomenon offers a potentially important way to shape user behavior in human-computer dialogue interactions but little is known about the mechanisms that underlie it and how they may be affected by interlocutor design. We report a Wizard of Oz study that explored ho...