We present a dependency conversion of five German test sets from five different genres. The dependency representation is made as similar as possible to the dependency representation of TiGer, one of the two big syntactic treebanks of German. The purpose of these test sets is to enable researchers to test dependency parsing models on several different data sets from different text genres. We dis...

55 As a focus of study, ‘social media’ tend to lack definitional clarity and grounding in theories of media and text. This paper establishes and discusses a conceptual framework for defining social media as communicative genres, constituted by the interplay between interactive functionalities configured at the software level and the invocation and appropriation of various software functionaliti...

An evaluation of the reliability of the ITU-T P.85 recommended standard for the evaluation of voice output systems was conducted using six English TTS systems. The P.85 standard is based on mean-opinion-score judgements of a listening panel on a number of rating scales. The study looked at how the ranking of the six systems on the scales varied across four different text genres and across two l...

Typically developing writers in fifth (n = 110, M = 10 years 8 months) or seventh (n = 97, M = 12 years 7 months) grade wrote informative, compare and contrast, and persuasive essays for which the content was held constant-two mountains with a history of volcanic eruption. Relevant background knowledge was provided by reading text and showing colorful illustrations to the students before writin...

We use textual features motivated by systemic functional linguistic theory for genre-based text categorization. We have developed feature sets representing different types of conjunctions and modal assessment, which together indicate (partially) how different genres structure texts and express attitudes towards propositions in the text. Using such features enables analysis of large-scale rhetor...

An evaluation of the reliability of the ITU-T P.85 recommended standard for the evaluation of voice output systems was conducted using six English TTS systems. The P.85 standard is based on mean-opinion-score judgements of a listening panel on a number of rating scales. The study looked at how the ranking of the six systems on the scales varied across four different text genres and across two l...

over the past twenty-five years, researchers have expressed considerable interest in titles of academic publications. unfortunately, conference paper titles (cpts) have only recently begun to receive attention. the aim of this study, therefore, is to investigate the text length, syntactic structure, and lexicon of cpts in applied linguistics. a data set of 698 titles was selected from the 2008 ...

We have developed an extraction based summarizer based on a word space model and PageRank and compared the readability of the resulting summaries with the original text, using various measures for Swedish and texts from different genres. The measures include among others readability index (LIX), nominal ratio (NR) and word variation index (OVIX). The measures correspond to the vocabulary load, ...

Previous studies have focused on written English and only occasionally have they considered the question of whether these changes are affected by text type. The default assumption appears to be that change over time in written English is representative of changes more generally and that, if text type makes a difference, the effect of this variation is minor. However, synchronic studies in both ...