Textual Carnivals

Textual Entailment

The task of Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) requires automated systems to identify when two spans of text share a common meaning -for example, that ``Alphaville Inc.'s attempted acquisition of Bauhaus led to a jump in both companies' stock prices'' entails ``Bauahaus' stock rose'', but not ``Alphaville acquired Bauhaus''. This general capability would be a solid proxy for Natural Language ...

Textual Entailment

Drawing about images: textual and non-textual interpretation

° full paper Context and Conditions This paper addresses a familiar situation from a novel point of view. The familiar situation has two aspects: (1) that writing about architecture and drawing architecture produces two different types of outcome that are difficult to reconcile; and (2) that drawing about architecture does not produce uniform results and those experts who are used to interpreti...

A New Textual/Non-Textual Classifier for Document Skew Correction

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...

Textual Metadiscourse Resources in Research Articles*

This study was motivated by three factors, which also contribute to its significance for today’s academic writing. First, research articles are the significant means of communication between the writers all over the world. Second, persuasion and organization are crucial notions in academic writing where the authors have to consider the academic audiences and their needs.  Third, some writers ar...