Systemic Functional Linguistics explicates how texts communicate ideational, interpersonal, and textual meanings. Texts produced by cultural pedagogic institutions, such as museums, depend on several discursive choices to construct interpersonal meanings communicated through the interaction between institution, what it stands for, interactant visitors. Museum-texts to/with visitors pertaining s...

This paper describes the input specification language of the WAG Sentence Generation system. The input is described in terms of Halliday’s (1978) three meaning components, ideational meaning (the propositional content to be expressed), interactional meaning (what the speaker intends the listener to do in making the utterance), and textual meaning (how the content is structured as a message, in ...

An important argument in favor of the encyclical theory of the epistle to the Ephesians is based upon the peculiarities found in the epistle itself. Yet these unusual features (e.g., the lack of personal greetings, the unusual statements in 1:15, 3:2, and 4:21, etc.) can all be satisfactorily explained in the light of an original Ephesian destination. After an examination of early scribal habit...

Documents are usually represented in the bag-of-word space. However, this representation does not take into account the possible relations between words. We propose here a graphical model for representing documents: the Theme Topic Mixture Model (TTMM). This model assumes two types of relations among textual data. Topics link words to each other and Themes gather documents with particular distr...

holy quran’s commentators according to their different ideologicalapproaches and scientific capabilities, have given different explanationsfrom quranic verses. because they are affected first of all, by the depth of itscontent and then by implications that are used in it. in this article we aregoing to analyze some of the maryam verses, concerning custom andchastity (16-32) with a descriptive-a...

Current techniques towards information security have limited capabilities to detect and counter attacks that involve different kinds of masquerade and spread of misinformation executed over long time periods to achieve malicious goals. Detection of such deceptive information obtained during online interactions (emails, chat room conversations) is the first step before counter strategies can be ...

In Automatic Text Processing tasks, documents are usually represented in the bag-ofwords space. However, this representation does not take into account the possible relations between words. We propose here a review of a family of document density estimation models for representing documents. Inside this family we derive another possible model: the Theme Topic Mixture Model (TTMM). This model as...

We present a framework for the integrated analysis of the textual and prosodic characteristics of information structure in the Switchboard corpus of conversational English. Information structure describes the availability, organisation and salience of entities in a discourse model. We present standards for the annotation of information status (old, mediated and new), and give guidelines for ann...

This paper addresses a subtask of relation extraction, namely Relation Validation. Relation validation can be described as follows: given an instance of a relation and a relevant text fragment, the system is asked to decide whether this instance is true or not. Instead of following the common approaches of using statistical or context features directly, we propose a method based on textual enta...