Recount text is a staple material taught in the first year of Indonesian secondary schools yet research on this dominant ELT unit limited despite common observation many students struggling to produce well-written recount text. To address gap and problem, study conducted textual meaning analysis texts written by tenth-grade Vocational School. This aimed figure out types themes shown 14 from two...

The information-structural status of clitic left dislocated arguments in Spanish has been argued to depend crucially on their thematic role. Earlier HPSG analyses of related phenomena in other languages do not take into account this sort of information. A formalization will be presented which can handle differences in information-structure arising from different thematic roles of clitic left di...

We examine the task of finding thematic structure in a data corpus comprising text and time series, motivated by applications to financial data such as improving correlation estimation. We introduce a topic factor model (TFM): a joint generative model for both text and time series data which resembles supervised latent Dirichlet allocation. Our TFM allows the decomposition of time series into f...

Semantic structure in the mental lexicon is often assumed to follow a taxonomic structure grouping similar items. This study uses a network clustering analysis of a massive word association dataset that does not primarily focus on concrete noun categories, but includes the majority of the words used in daily life. At this scale, we found widespread overlap between thematically organized cluster...

Two visual-world experiments investigated whether and how quickly discourse-based expectations about the prosodic realization of spoken words modulate interpretation of acoustic-prosodic cues. Experiment 1 replicated effects of segmental lengthening on activation of onset-embedded words (e.g. pumpkin) using resynthetic manipulation of duration and fundamental frequency (F0). In Experiment 2, th...

We investigate the appropriateness of using a technique based on support vector machines for identifying thematic structure of text streams. The thematic segmentation task is modeled as a binaryclassification problem, where the different classes correspond to the presence or the absence of a thematic boundary. Experiments are conducted with this approach by using features based on word distribu...

An on-line "word detection" paradigm was used to assess the comprehension of thematic and transitive verb agreements during sentence processing in individuals diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's Disease (AD, n=15) and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD, n=14). AD, FTD, and control participants (n=17) were asked to listen for a word in a sentence. Unbeknownst to the participants, the target word follo...

In linguistics, the semantic relations between words in a sentence are accounted for, inter alia, as the assignment of thematic roles, e.g. AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc. As in predicate logic, simple linguistic expressions are decomposed into one predicate (often the verb) and its arguments. The predicate assigns thematic roles to the arguments, so that each sentence has a thematic grid, a structure ...