Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness portrays the inhabitants Congo from non-human perceptions. Charles Marlow’s observation and analysis citizens are based on prejudiced viewpoints pre-defined white archetypes. The chief motive Belgians was to justify native as ferocious collect ivory Congo. Natives did not recognize worth tusk while men ship it Europe brand ornamental articles. This representati...

It is widely agreed that the interaction possibilities in interactive narrative are limited by the current approach to dialog creation, which typically relies on teams of scriptwriters. This paper reports on experiments testing whether authorial leverage can be increased by methods for natural language generation of dialog in a story world called Heart of Shadows. Our experiments show that (1) ...

The papers represent a particular language theory, systemic functional linguistics. The papers also reflect a particular view of the relation between language, knowledge, and the world; in particular, the papers describe the ways in which evaluative language expresses the value systems of individuals and communities. Finally, the authors have used a particular methodology in their research, the...

We propose a novel unsupervised method for separating out distinct authorial components of a document. In particular, we show that, given a book artificially “munged” from two thematically similar biblical books, we can separate out the two constituent books almost perfectly. This allows us to automatically recapitulate many conclusions reached by Bible scholars over centuries of research. One ...

introduction: the every possible attempt in voice disorders assessment is to gather samples which represent individual s’ actual voice in the daily speech. the researchers have found that voice characteristics in reading a passage are closer to daily speech. making texts has been started since early 20th century. the lack o f suitable text in farsi language makes it difficult to conduct requisi...

Introduction: Laryngeal burns cause long-term voice disorders due to mucosal changes of the vocal folds. Inhalation injuries affect voice production and result in changes in the mucosal thickness and voice quality.   Case Report: A 47-year-old woman was transferred to our department with laryngeal burns sustained during a house fire. On laryngoscopic examination, mucosal waves of both vocal fol...

Research on EFL doctoral thesis writing is booming. The literature indicates a link between and identity formation. Despite the call for scholarly attention writers, writers of theses in English as Foreign language (EFL) settings have not been well represented previous studies. Moreover, although writer has proposed consisting four aspects, most research mainly adopted corpus approach to discus...

background : a head and neck (h&n;) cancer severely affect the voice and compromises the patient’s vocal independence. the present study proposed to investigate the difference in the three vital components of voice the pitch, jitter and shimmer in h&n; cancer patients and compared it with age matched healthy volunteers. methods : the voice parameters were ascertained in the freshly diagnosed h&...