The research is entitled Reference in Narrative Texts. Writer investigates hypothesis focused on reference usage.  as a part of cohesive devices grammatical cohesion, and narrative mode genre text. developed distribution frequency device. objectives this are to analyze describe (1) entities or piece informations appear refer the same referent; (2) indicator genre; (3) accurance links within t...

This paper argues that narrative elements from the science fiction (SF) literary genre are used in the discourse of Nanoscience and Technology (NST) to bridge the gap between what is technically possible today and its inflated promises for the future. The argument is illustrated through a detailed discussion of two NST texts. The paper concludes by arguing that the use of SF narrative technique...

Temporal dependencies reveal interesting insights into the semantic discourse structure of narrative texts. The investigations of literary scientists are, as of today, mostly based on labor-intensive manual annotations. Computational Narratology, an important subtopic of the Digital Humanities, aims at facilitating annotations and supporting literary scientists with their analyses. According to...

In this paper, we describe NKRL (Narrative Knowledge Representation Language), a conceptual modeling formalism for taking into account the semantic characteristics of this important component of eChronicle information represented by the ‘narrative’ documents. In these documents, the main part of the information consists in the description of the ‘events’ that relate the real or intended behavio...

We have developed a novel, publicly available annotation tool for the semantic encoding of texts, especially those in the narrative domain. Users can create formal propositions to represent spans of text, as well as temporal relations and other aspects of narrative. A built-in naturallanguage generation component regenerates text from the formal structures, which eases the annotation process. W...

We consider extraction of predicate-argument structures from a single text with a substantial narrative part. Working with such texts rather than large corpora requires detailed syntactic analyses, a learning mechanism and a cooperating user who confirms automatically generated results. We describe a system with such capabilities. The system has been tested on a variety of texts and has recentl...

houshang, second mythical king of iran, is introduced as pishdad in historical texts. he had the most important duties such as collecting water in ponds, ordering to hunt wild animals, clothes making, carpeting using animal's skin, and encouraging people to agriculture. arabic historical texts are written in the early islamic centuries narrating the stories of persian kings. they were derived f...

The naturalness of qualitative reasoning suggests that qualitative representations might be an important component of the semantics of natural language. Prior work showed that framebased representations of qualitative process theory constructs could indeed be extracted from natural language texts. That technique relied on the parser recognizing specific syntactic constructions, which had limite...

Natural Language Engineering tasks require large and complex annotated datasets to build more advanced models of language. Corpora are typically annotated by several experts to create a gold standard; however, there are now compelling reasons to use a non-expert crowd to annotate text, driven by cost, speed and scalability. Phrase Detectives Corpus 1.0 is an anaphorically-annotated corpus of en...

Literature and medicine is a flourishing subdiscipline of literary studies that examines the many relations between literary acts and texts and medical acts and texts. The author examines the historical connections between these two fields and suggests that the growth and decline in medicine's attentiveness to the power of words can be used as a marker for medicine's degree of attentiveness to ...