In this paper we describe an extractive method of creating very short summaries or gists that capture the essence of a news story using a linguistic technique called lexical chaining. The recent interest in robust gisting and title generation techniques originates from a need to improve the indexing and browsing capabilities of interactive digital multimedia systems. More specifically these sys...

This paper investigates the appropriateness of using lexical cohesion analysis to assess Chinese readability. In addition to term frequency features, we derive features from the result of lexical chaining to capture the lexical cohesive information, where E-HowNet lexical database is used to compute semantic similarity between nouns with high word frequency. Classification models for assessing ...

We present a computational notion of Lexical Tightness that measures global cohesion of content words in a text. Lexical tightness represents the degree to which a text tends to use words that are highly inter-associated in the language. We demonstrate the utility of this measure for estimating text complexity as measured by US school grade level designations of texts. Lexical tightness strongl...

This study is mainly aimed at analyzing cohesive devices in the reading texts on Accounting at ULSA, finding out teachers’ attitudes towards cohesion teaching. Four reading texts were chosen as core materials for the analysis of the cohesive devices. Five teachers from English Department were asked to take part in the interview in order to give ideas about their attitudes towards teaching cohes...

In this paper, general linear complementarity problems(Lf'Ps) are studied via global optimization problems. In particular, unsolvable 'LCPs are reformulated as multicriteria optimization, minimax optimization and quadratic programming problems. The solvability and unsolvability of LCPs are obtained via these reformulations. Furthermore, first-order and second-order global optimaiity conditions ...

In this paper we consider the problem of the longest common parameterized subsequence with fixed common substring (STR-IC-LCPS). In particular, we show that STR-IC-LCPS is NP-complete. We describe an approach to solve STR-IC-LCPS. This approach is based on an explicit reduction from the problem to the satisfiability problem.

Main-chain liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) are used to produce strong fibers due to their ability to form highly-ordered orientational states. For sufficiently long chains it is known that loss of entropy in such highly-ordered states is partly recovered by the formation of socalled hairpins or kinks. The presence of hairpins not only modifies the microstructure of LCPs, but it has also been...

The aim of this study is to find out the type and function lexical cohesion used in lyrics Ed Sheeran's song entitled "Photograph" based on theory cohesion. This uses a qualitative method that focuses cohesion, especially repetition (anaphora epistrophe repetition), synonym, antonym, collocation. researcher observation with note-taking techniques collect data. results are found all types "Photo...