Context updating during sentence comprehension: The effect of aboutness topic

Location Of The Topic Sentence, Level Of Language Proficiency, and Reading Comprehension

Identification of Topic and Focus in Czech: Evaluation of Manual Parallel Annotations

is paper presents results of a control annotation of the Topic-Focus Articulation of Czech sentences based on the notion of “aboutness”. is is one of the steps testing the hypothesis about the relation between contextual boundness and “aboutness”. We suppose that the bipartition of the sentence into its Topic and Focus (“aboutness”) can be automatically derived from the values of contextual b...

Identifying "aboutness topics": two annotation experiments

This paper deals with the annotation of “aboutness topic” (also known as “sentence topic”) in naturally occurring data. We report on two annotation experiments involving German newspaper texts: In experiment 1, based on the annotation guidelines by Götze et al. (2007), two expert annotators had to select the aboutness topic from among a small number of pre-defined choices, for a total of 588 se...

On the Problem of 'aboutness' in Document Analysis

One of the most crucial problem areas of information science concerns the identification of what documents are 'about'. This paper seeks to define the notion of 'aboutness ' within the context of recent work in text linguistics. It describes, first, the essential communicational structures of sentences, paragraphs and texts in terms of theme, rheme and thematic progression, connectors of clause...

Topic Detection and Segmentation in Automatic Text Summarization∗

A topic or a theme is what discourse, a discourse fragment or a sentence is about. It is the shortest summary of a discourse, the main proposition of a paragraph or what is commented on in a sentence. The term topic is usually defined as the aboutness of a unit of discourse [20]. Topic structure within a text can be tackled from two different points of view: from a Document Level (discourse top...