Individuals who read more tend to have stronger verbal skills than those who read less. Interestingly, what you readmaymake a difference. Past studies have found that reading narrative fiction, but not expository nonfiction, predicts verbal ability. Why this difference exists is not known. Here we investigate one possibility: whether fiction texts contain more of the words typically evaluated b...

This study investigated the utilization of intertextuality in the fourth edition of the Interchange book series for English as Foreign Language (EFL) Learners using Fairclough’s (1992) framework. Ten texts were randomly chosen among the reading passages of the Interchange book series and later analyzed regarding intertextuality kinds and methods of reporting. Findings indicated that two types o...

this paper, largely motivated by hoey (2001), revisits the issue of written discourse analysis and, in particular, the problem-solution pattern. much discussion embarrasses the way in which texts are pro-duced and understood. the different functional approaches include halliday and hasan’s approach, van dijk’s process-oriented approach, the procedural approach of de beaugrande and dressler, and...

We present the Narrator, a Natural Language Generation component used in a digital storytelling system. The system takes as input a formal representation of a story plot, in the form of a causal network relating the actions of the characters to their motives and their consequences. Based on this input, the Narrator generates a narrative in Dutch, by carrying out tasks such as constructing a Doc...

We describe here our ongoing research on modeling conceptual and narrative structure of fairytales by a computer system. In this paper we focus on the variations of fairytales based on Cinderella from all around the world. We analyzed twenty-three Japanese texts of Cinderella tales and modeled their conceptual and narrative structures using the notions of composition elements and motifs. We the...

In clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) the medical information is stored in a narrative way. A large part of this information occurs in a negated form. The detection of negation in CPGs is an important task since it helps medical personnel to identify not occurring symptoms and diseases as well as treatment actions that should not be accomplished. We developed algorithms capable of Negation Det...

The use of corpora, and especially annotated corpora, is key to advancing the scientific understanding of narrative. I seek here to answer several interrelated questions: what corpora have been used in computational and cognitive research on narrative to date? What are the general characteristics of these corpora, and are they adequate for the overall task of a scientific understanding of narra...

The assumption about the formal and semantic link between language and genre is the starting point of this study. The absurd in speech is analyzed in texts written by N. Gogol and D. Kharms, while absurd genres are tackled on the basis of the narratives of Dostoevsky, Camus and Sabato. The reality of modern times and all aspects of its artistic representations have altered the form and ideology...

The aim of this paper is to clarify the role played by referential factors in the development of a spatial code during reading. Specifically, it explores whether this spatial encoding is determined by referential events related to a change in narrative mode which affect the integration process. Participants read narrative texts consisting of two paragraphs in which the point of view either chan...

Most of the clinical narratives are free-text forms. The information extractions from clinical narrative text are more complicated than those from other biomedical texts, such as books, articles, literature abstracts, and so on. In this paper, we review recent published researches on the implication and technology of information extraction from free-text clinical narratives. We mainly introduce...