to study the causes of difficulties in understanding the german short story bypersian learners from the perspective of text linguistics first we have searchedthe factors of cohesion and coherence in german texts in a short story. then wehave checked its translations by the students and observed that these people arefamiliar with the grammatical structure of each sentence and the vocabulary ofth...

thereis a sentence by a butcher to abusaeed in one of the stories of “asrar-al-towhid”(maqamat of sheikh abusaeed abollkheir) that contains a “regretful”combination. professor shafie kadkani believes, based on what he has written inthe appendix to the book, that the “regretful” combination denotes “ridicule”and has described it; but according to the other sources,and based on the semantic struc...

We developed a new sentence extraction framework, the Sliding Window Framework, by using coherent structure among the sentences. Coherent structure means that the sentences that relate to a certain topic in an article are written in clusters to preserve the logical organization. To use the structure, our method makes blocks that consist of sentences in a window of a certain size, then estimates...

This paper addresses automatic detection of dependencies between Japanese phrasal units called bunsetsus, and sentence boundaries in a spontaneous speech corpus. In spontaneous speech, the biggest problem with dependency structure analysis is that sentence boundaries are ambiguous. In this paper, we propose two methods for improving the accuracy of sentence boundary detection in spontaneous Jap...

This paper reported an acoustic experiment examining the effect of topic structure and syntax on boundary pitch parameters. Simple discourses containing three sentences in Standard Chinese were constructed and the boundary between the first sentence and the second sentence of each discourse varied along the following parameters: (a) topic internal, clause, (b) topic shift, clause, (c) topic int...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a general approach for summarizing the meaning of Vietnamese paragraphs based on simple two-sentences. The studied objects are paragraphs having the common characteristics: the first sentence has one or two nouns indicating human objects; the second sentence has one or two anaphoric pronouns. We only consider two types of Vietnamese human pronouns in th...