In diasporic literature the question of identity is tangled with the question of history. This study aims at discussing how Yasmin Crowther reviews the Persian tradition in The Saffron Kitchen, her autobiographical novel which is mainly set-in early 60s, Iran. The novel focuses on evoking and rewriting history by using different types of counter narratives that contrast with Iranian hegemonic d...

In this paper, we present a system that automatically generates questions from natural language text using discourse connectives. We explore the usefulness of the discourse connectives for Question Generation (QG) that looks at the problem beyond sentence level. Our work divides the QG task into content selection and question formation. Content selection consists of finding the relevant part in...

Th e paper presents an analysis of the meaning and discourse eff ects of the German discourse particle nämlich that unifi es its diff erent readings and explains its distributional properties. I suggest that nämlich is most adequately analysed in terms of it indicating a specifi cational relation between its host and the preceding sentence, which in a question-based framework can be implemented...

We propose a computationally-efficient variant of the shapeadaptive discrete cosine transform (SA-DCT) currently considered for MPEG-4. Although the SA-DCT complexity is acceptable for 8 8 blocks, it is very high when complete regions are processed at once. To reduce the SA-DCT complexity, we replace its 1-D DCT with a quasi-DCT algorithm and we assure that the quasi-DCT basis functions are ver...

Communicative alignment refers to adaptation to one’s communication partner. Temporal aspects of such alignment have been little explored. This paper examines temporal aspects of lexical and syntactic alignment (i.e. tendencies to use the interlocutor’s lexical items and syntactic structures) in task-oriented discourse. In particular, we investigate whether lexical and syntactic alignment incre...

The correspondence addresses the intriguing question of which random models are equivalent to the discrete cosine transform (DCT) and discrete sine transform (DST). Common knowledge states that these transforms are asymptotically equivalent to first-order Gauss causal Markov random processes. We establish that the DCT and the DST are exactly equivalent to homogeneous one-dimensional (1-D) and t...

Discourse parsing is a challenging task in NLP and plays a crucial role in discourse analysis. To enable discourse analysis for Hindi, Hindi Discourse Relations Bank was created on a subset of Hindi TreeBank. The benefits of a discourse analyzer in automated discourse analysis, question summarization and question answering domains has motivated us to begin work on a discourse analyzer for Hindi...