Metadiscourse features are those facets of a text, which make the organization of the text explicit, provide information about the writer's attitude toward the text content, and engage the reader in the interaction. This study interpreted metadiscourse markers in translated and non-translated persuasive texts. To this end, the researcher chose the translated versions of one of the leading newsp...

This work is supported by National Nature Science Foundation of China (69982005) and Projects of Development Plan of the State Key Foundation Search (G199803050703) Abstract: A robust approach is proposed for document skew detection. We use Fourier analysis and SVM to classify textual areas from non-textual areas of documents. We also propose a robust method to determine the skew angle from tex...

Recognition of textual entailment is not an easy task. In fact, early experimental evidences in [1] seems to demonstrate that even human judges often fail in reaching an agreement on the existence of entailment relation between two expressions. We aim to contribute to the theoretical and practical setting of textual entailment, through both a linguistic inspection of the textual entailment phen...

This paper describes our work in NTCIR-11 on RITE-3 Binary-class (BC) subtask and Multi-class (MC) subtask in Simplified Chinese. We proposed a textual entailment system using a hybrid approach that integrates many features. The performance of the proposed method in the formal run achieved Macro-F1’s of 59.71% in BC subtask and only 23.19% in MC subtask

This study aimed to investigate the impact of textual enhancement and metalinguistic explanation as focus-on-form tasks tending to encourage the acquisition of nominal clauses (NCs) in English. It explored (a) whether textual enhancement and metalinguistic explanation would promote and enhance the knowledge of NCs, (b) whether these two tasks would differ in terms of enhancing learners' knowled...

The task of developing effective text information classification systems requires the thoughtful analysis and synthesis variable components technology. These strongly affect practical efficiency requirements to data. For this purpose, a typical technology was discussed, comparing regular “learning from features” approach versus more advanced “deep learning” approach, that studies In order imple...

This study aimed at investigating shades of identity in TEFL textbooks. Most identity studies have focused on authors as knowledge producers. They have neglected authors' roles in constructing identity. Further, few scholars have considered disciplinary specific textbooks in their analyses of identity. Trying to bridge these gaps, we applied Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics to investi...