Derivational productivity and text typology*

Derivational Productivity and Text Typology

User-Oriented MT Evaluation and Text Typology

A brief survey of user-oriented MT evaluation methodologies suggests that they all suffer drawbacks in terms of time and/or generality and/or user interpretability. The time and cost of evaluation, coupled with system prices, make it increasingly less likely that full-scale pre-purchase evaluation by a single potential user will be economic. It is clearly desirable that MT systems should be “ge...

Text Typology and Statistics Explorations in Italian press subgenres

According to Biber’s definition, text types are represented by groupings of texts which are similar in their linguistic form, while genre categories are assigned on the basis of use. It is important to stress that texts from a single genre might be classified into different text types. In the present research, an experiment will be carried out to single out different text typologies among Itali...

On Derivational Productivity in Slovene with Notes on Lexical Frequency and Awareness of the Norm

Raziskana sta dva izpridevnigka glagolska besedotvorna vzorca: ~inhoativno<< obrazilo -eti in ~fakti t ivnoobrazilo i t i . Poglavitni cilj raziskave je ugotavljanje moinosti za merjenje produktivnosti besedotvornih vzorcev. Analiza je bila izpeljana na osnovi psiholobkega testiranja, izvedenega v Ljubljani v letih 1993-94. Glede produktivnosti je avtor priSel do treh zakljutkov: prvit, produkt...

Quantitative Text Typology: The Impact of Sentence Length

This study focuses on the contribution of sentence length for a quantitative text typology. Therefore, 333 Slovenian texts are analyzed with regard to their sentence length. By way of multivariate discriminant analyses it is shown that indeed, a text typology is possible, based on sentence length, only; this typology, however, does not coincide with traditional text classifications, such as, e....