OBJECTIVE The idea of testing a hypothesis is central to the practice of biomedical research. However, the results of testing a hypothesis are published mainly in the form of prose articles. Encoding the results as scientific assertions that are both human and machine readable would greatly enhance the synergistic growth and dissemination of knowledge. DESIGN We have developed MachineProse (M...

The results of a computational analysis of all predications, finite and non-finite, in a one-million-word corpus of present-day American English (the "Brown Corpus") are presented. The analysis shows the nature of the syntactic differences among the various genres of writing represented in the data base, especially between informative prose and imaginative prose. The results also demonstrate th...

Based on data from a large-scale experiment with human subjects, we conclude that the logarithm of probability to guess a word in context (unpredictability) depends linearly on the word length. This result holds both for poetry and prose, even though with prose, the subjects don’t know the length of the omitted word. We hypothesize that this effect reflects a tendency of natural language to hav...

Historical research shows that many physicians experienced in medical sciences are also talented in art, literature and poetry. Avicenna was a sage who was skilled in poetry in addition to philosophy and medicine. He wrote two different types of poetry: those meant to be enjoyed for their literary qualities of novelty and imagination, and his didactic Urjuzeh. Didactic poems are different from ...

The Automated Evaluation of Scientific Writing, or AESW, is the task of identifying sentences in need of correction to ensure their appropriateness in a scientific prose. The data set comes from a professional editing company, VTeX, with two aligned versions of the same text – before and after editing – and covers a variety of textual infelicities that proofreaders have edited. While previous s...

The subject of the study is stylistic functions Spanish adverbs with suffix -mente in modern based on analysis corpus contexts works prose XXI century. functional features was theoretical positions authors domestic and foreign grammars language, linguistics. Adverbs formant - mente are grammatically multifunctional elements that polysemantic lexical units have ability to acquire additional conn...

We are witnessing the emergence of a new technology for dynamically creating stories tailored to the interests of particular readers. Narrative prose generators o er much promise for literacy education, but designing them for maximal e ectiveness requires us to understand their e ect on readers. This article describes the evaluation of StoryBook, an implemented narrative prose generation system...