The article is devoted to the analysis of abstract vocabulary on basis fragments from literary texts. text defined as "a conscious sequence verbal signs that have properties coherence and integrity, well property uncertainty common meaning simple sum meanings components." Abstract predominant in speech general. Depending context, an noun can vary denote a removed or more specific meaning. An im...

Recent studies reveal that tonal language speakers with autism have enhanced neural sensitivity to pitch changes in nonspeech stimuli but not to lexical tone contrasts in their native language. The present ERP study investigated whether the distinct pitch processing pattern for speech and nonspeech stimuli in autism was due to a speech-specific deficit in categorical perception of lexical tones...

Summaries automatically derived by sentence extraction are known to exhibit some coherence degradation, readability deterioration, and topical under-representation. We propose a strategy for improving upon these problems, aiming to generate more cohesive summaries by analyzing the lexical cohesion factors in the source document texts. As an initial experiment, we have looked at one particular f...

In the last years, at the Institute for Computational Linguistics in Pisa, a few lexical resources have been developed aiming at encoding complex lexical semantic information. ItalWordNet and SIMPLE are two of these resources which, tackling semantics in the lexicon from different points of view, and being at least partially complementary, could certainly profit from linking each other. These r...

In this paper we present a parser for Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) which is characterised by incrementally constructing the cand f-structure of a sentence during the parse. We then discuss the possibilities of the earliest check on consistency, coherence and completeness. Incremental construction of f-structure leads to an early detection and abort ion of incorrect paths and so increases pa...

This paper studies the problem of sentencelevel semantic coherence by answering SATstyle sentence completion questions. These questions test the ability of algorithms to distinguish sense from nonsense based on a variety of sentence-level phenomena. We tackle the problem with two approaches: methods that use local lexical information, such as the n-grams of a classical language model; and metho...

The research was conducted to analyze cohesion and coherence used on 20 student’s narrative writing in SMAN 4 Praya. Descriptive qualitative method this by collecting data from students assignments. Then, classifying the findings using theory introduced Halliday Hasan (1976). results obtained were: (a) grammatical cohesion; reference 61.09%, substitution 13.53%, ellipsis 04.88%, conjunction 26....

The PLATO machine translation (MT) evaluation (MTE) research program has as a goal the systematic development of a predictive relationship between discrete, welldefined MTE metrics and the specific information processing tasks that can be reliably performed with output. Traditional measures of quality, informed by the International Standards for Language Engineering (ISLE), namely, clarity, coh...

Everyone laughed. What’s funny about this? If I had said, “Let’s take the short way,” it would have been understood that the shortness used in my description also provided a motivation for taking that route. Since I used the word “muddy” instead, it seemed as if I wanted to run that way because it was muddy, as if I enjoyed sloshing through the mud. Very often different parts of a clause are co...

Dissociations between impairments in microlinguistic and macrolinguistic abilities were examined in brain-damaged patients to assess whether these abilities are psychologically and neurologically distinct. The discourse productions of three groups of patients with equally severe fluent language disorders, but varying neuropathology and varying profiles of associated nonlinguistic cognitive impa...