Senses and Texts

Choosing Rhetorical Structures to Plan Instructional Texts

This paper discusses a fundamental problem in natural language generation: how to organize the content of a text in a coherent and natural way. In this research, we set out to determine the semantic content and the rhetorical structure of texts and to develop heuristics to perform this process automatically within a text generation framework. The study was performed on a specific language and t...

Grounding "Language" in the Senses: What the Eyes and Ears Reveal about Ming 名 (Names) in Early Chinese Texts

Mechanism to Enrich Short Texts Query Search Engine in Large-Scale Data Collection

Retrieving semantic similar short texts is a crucial issue to many applications, e.g., web search, ads matching, question answer system, and so forth. Most of the traditional methods concentrate on how to improve the precision of the similarity measurement, while current real applications need to efficiently explore the top similar short texts semantically related to the query one. We address t...

A Flexible Interface Tool for Manual Word Sense Annotation

This paper introduces LX-SenseAnnotator, a user-friendly interface tool for manual word sense annotation. The demonstration will show how input texts are loaded by the tool, the options available to the annotator for displaying and browsing texts, and how word senses are displayed and manually assigned. The flexibility of LX-SenseAnnotator, including the support of a variety of languages and th...

From senses to texts: An all-in-one graph-based approach for measuring semantic similarity

Safīne, Majmūʻe, and Jong The Historical Transformations of a Literary Genre

The terms “majmūʻe”, “safīne”, and “jong” are presently used in the senses which may differ from their past meanings. Some related terms in Arabic and Persian languages, such as “bayāż”, “jarīde”, even “korrāse”, “daftar”, “mofrad”, and “jozv” have been coined for special concepts, which are hardly definable in some cases. Therefore, acquiring a relative perception of these terms, with regard t...