Failure to identify the right institutionalization framework has caused derailments of major public sector Digitally-Enabled Service Transformation (DEST) projects in the UK, such as the NHS-National Program for IT (NHS-NPfIT) and BBC Digital Media Initiatives (BBC-DMI). Although such cases have generated much debate among the research community, majority of the discussions have been dominated ...

We investigate the problem of readability assessment using a range of lexical and syntactic features and study their impact on predicting the grade level of texts. As empirical basis, we combined two web-based text sources, Weekly Reader and BBC Bitesize, targeting different age groups, to cover a broad range of school grades. On the conceptual side, we explore the use of lexical and syntactic ...

In this paper, first we describe rushes summarization system which is made this year for the TRECVID2008 BBC rushes task. Our aim this year is to build up base system using minimum information and to see how it works. In the second we will describe about our High-level feature extraction system briefly.

Framed in Farahzad’s (2009) critical discourse analysis (CDA) model, the present research aimed at analyzing these influences in two Persian translations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at micro and macro levels. To do so, the textual features at micro-level, while the constituent aspects about the translated texts at macro-level were examined. As to the micro-level analysis, it was found t...