Document retrieval is the task of returning relevant textual resources for a given user query. In this paper, we investigate whether the semantic analysis of the query and the documents, obtained exploiting state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing techniques (e.g., Entity Linking, Frame Detection) and Semantic Web resources (e.g., YAGO, DBpedia), can improve the performances of the traditio...

This study aimed to investigate the use of interactional metadiscourse markers in 168 comments made by 28 university students of engineering via an educational forum held as part of a general English course. The students wrote their comments on six topics, with a total of 19,671 words. Their comments during educational discussions were analyzed to determine their use of five metadiscourse categ...

Previous studies have explored the genre characteristics and persuasive nature of press releases. However, systematic analyses metadiscursive devices for purposes are lacking corporate Following a corpus-assisted approach, this study investigates distribution patterns different types metadiscourse resources used to achieve persuasiveness in release genre. A quantitative analysis corpus under re...

The current study qualitatively examined blurbs in the discipline of physics which is perceived to be less infused with evaluative resources and more objective and impersonal in its textual argumentation. The study followed the appraisal framework proposed by Martin and White (2005) to see how interpersonal meaning is textually constructed in blurbs. Findings indicated that writers of the blurb...

This study compares metadiscourse markers in result and discussion sections of literature and engineering research papers. To this end, 40 research articles (20 literature and 20 engineering) are selected from two major international journals. Based on Hyland’s (2005) model of metadiscourse, the articles are codified in terms of frequency, percentage, and density of interactive and interactiona...

This study analysed interactional metadiscourse markers on 40 expository essays by ESL learners from hard and soft science courses based table of Hyland (2005). The aimed to examine whether both groups used the same amount type, in different course differed their selected metadiscourse. There were some differences types groups. Soft produced more features they interpretative meanwhile very asse...

Variability of semantic expression is a fundamental phenomenon of a natural language where same meaning can be expressed by different texts. The process of inferring a text from another is called textual entailment. Textual Entailment is useful in a wide range of applications, including question answering, summarization, text generation, and machine translation. The recognition of textual entai...

This paper suggests a methodology for building a technological environment for linguistic processing, intended to conserve, update and exploit, for research, for public and for commercial purposes, strategic linguistic resources of the Romanian language, rooted in textual data contributed daily and in the long run by important editorial houses and mass-media institutions. In essence, it describ...

This paper presents how the TAAABLE project addresses the textual case-based reasoning challenge of the CCC, thanks to a combination of principles, methods, and technologies of various fields of knowledge-based system technologies, namely CBR, ontology engineering (manual and semi-automatic), data and text-mining using textual resources of the Web, text annotation (used as an indexing technique...