Preliminary surveys show that the lan­ guage of blogs is not restricted to the more informal levels of expression. In­ stead blogs may include many kinds of written language: from simple personal notes to literary prose or poetry. The pa­ per presents a sample of Italian blogs and comments on the results of the search of literary forms in two Web corpora using search engine queries.

We examine different features and classifiers for the categorization of opinion words into actor and speaker view. To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive work to address sentiment views on the word level taking into consideration opinion verbs, nouns and adjectives. We consider many high-level features requiring only few labeled training data. A detailed feature analysis produces lin...

There is an increasing interest in linguistic ontologies (e.g. WordNet) for a variety of content-based tasks, including conceptual indexing, word sense disambiguation and cross-language information retrieval. A relevant contribution in this direction is represented by linguistic ontologies with domain specific coverage, which are a crucial topic for the development of concrete application syste...

A corpus of 313 freshman college essays was analyzed in order to better understand the forms and functions of humor in academic writing. Human ratings of humor and wordplay were statistically aggregated using Factor Analysis to provide an overall Humor component score for each essay in the corpus. In addition, the essays were also scored for overall writing quality by human raters, which correl...

This paper presents a novel approach to automated sentence completion based on pointwise mutual information (PMI). Feature sets are created by fusing the various types of input provided to other classes of language models, ultimately allowing multiple sources of both local and distant information to be considered. Furthermore, it is shown that additional precision gains may be achieved by incor...

The prosodic structure of speech is based on complex interaction within and between several different levels of linguistic, and paralinguistic organization, and is expressed in the modulation of F0, intensity, duration, and voice quality, as well as the occurrence of pauses. Even though leading theories of prosody maintain that prosody is shaped through the interaction of grammatical factors fr...

We describe here the technical details of our participation to PAN 2012’s “traditional” authorship attribution tasks. The main originality of our approach lies in the use of a large quantity of varied features to represent textual data, processed by a maximum entropy machine learning tool. Most of these features make an intensive use of natural language processing annotation techniques as well ...

Tsonis and Tsonis [1] study rank-ordered distributions of the number of occurrences of protein domains in four different organisms, and they argue that the power-law decay, f ϰ 1/r, of the number f of occurrences of a protein domain with its rank r suggests the presence of linguistic features in eukaryotic genomes, and that this finding " may lead to important clues about the evolution of langu...

In this paper a combination of linguistic and structural information is used for the extraction of Dutch definitions. The corpus used is a collection of Dutch texts on computing and elearning containing 603 definitions. The extraction process consists of two steps. In the first step a parser using a grammar defined on the basis of the patterns observed in the definitions is applied on the compl...

This paper explores two linguistically motivated restrictions on the set of words used for topic tracking on newspaper articles: named entities and headline words. We assume that named entities is one of the linguistic features for topic tracking, since both topic and event are related to a specific place and time in a story. The basic idea to use headline words for the tracking task is that he...