This paper unearths the contribution of lexical cohesion to the textuality and overall meaning of Malcolm X’s speech 'The Ballot or the Bullet'. Drawing on Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) and Hoey’s (1991) theory of cohesion, specifically lexical   cohesion, whose main thrust is the role of lexical items in not only contributing to meaning but also serving as cohesive ties, the paper discusses how ...

Can a system that “learns from reading” figure out on it’s own the semantic classes of arbitrary noun phrases? This is essential for text understanding, given the limited coverage of proper nouns in lexical resources such as WordNet. Previous methods that use lexical patterns to discover hypernyms suffer from limited precision and recall. We present methods based on lexical patterns that find h...

Vast volumes of raw data are generated from the digital world each day. Acquiring useful information and chief features this is challenging, it has become a prime area current research. Another crucial knowledge inferencing. Much research been carried out in both directions. Swarm intelligence used for feature selection whereas inferencing either fuzzy or rough computing widely used. Hybridizat...