This paper aims to explore the linguistic and visual choices used by writer illustrator in order create meaning fantasy picturebook One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Blue Dads (1994), written Johnny Valentine illustrated Melody Sarecky, which features a gay family. The analytical tools employed this study deconstruct meanings said are Kress van Leeuwen’s (2006) Visual Social Semiotics Painter et al.’s (...

The present study was carried out with the purpose of examining the role of metaphorical language in the critical discourse analysis (CDA) of political texts based on a modern framework postulated by Kövecses (2015). The corpus of the study consisted of thirty-thousand words chosen as a textual sample to see which source conceptual domains are used and what generic/discursive attributes emerge ...

Information Retrieval (IR) research has recently started addressing the information need of exploratory search. where the searcher may be unfamiliar with the domain or not have decided what is the goal of his query. A popular tool to support exploratory search is the use of faceted search. The implementation of faceted search requires that documents be annotated by metadata in the form of attri...

Hypernymy relation acquisition has been widely investigated, especially because taxonomies, which often constitute the backbone structure of semantic resources are structured using this type of relations. Although lots of approaches have been dedicated to this task, most of them analyze only the written text. However relations between not necessarily contiguous textual units can be expressed, t...

A great deal of information on the Web is represented in both textual and structured form. The structured form is machinereadable and can be used to augment the textual data. We call this augmentation – the annotation of texts with relations that are included in the structured data – self-annotation. In this paper, we introduce self-annotation as a new supervised learning approach for developin...

This paper studies textual inference by investigating comma structures, which are highly frequent elements whose major role in the extraction of semantic relations has not been hitherto recognized. We introduce the problem of comma resolution, defined as understanding the role of commas and extracting the relations they imply. We show the importance of the problem using examples from Textual En...

With this analogy, I view rhetorical relations as realization of intentions. Furthermore, this analogy leads me to believe that rhetorical relations should be as numerous and varied as there are relations among actions and objects in the domain. This view seems to be in conflict with Dale's view (in this proceedings) which argues that rhetorical relation should only include textual relations ra...