the conception and creation of eternal samples is one of the most evident efforts made by man from the very beginning of human life when he observed death and mortality and found all the world's manifestations prone to collapse and destruction. one of the most significant images related to the concept of externality and immortality is circular symbols. in fact, man has represented the conc...

With the pervasion of social media, topic identification in short texts attracts increasing attention in recent years. However, in nature the texts of social media are short and noisy, and the structures are sparse and dynamic, resulting in difficulty to identify topic categories exactly from online social media. Inspired by social science findings that preference consistency and social contagi...

This paper discusses an approach to planning the content of instructional texts. The research is based on a corpus study of 15 French procedural texts ranging from step-by-step device manuals to general artistic procedures. The approach taken starts from an AI task planner building a task representation, from which semantic carriers are selected. The most appropriate RST relations to communicat...

This paper presents an overview of the system submitted by the University of Hamburg to the IT domain shared translation task as part of the ACL 2016 First Conference of Machine Translation (WMT 2016). We have chosen data selection as a domain adaptation method. The filtering of the general domain data makes use of paragraph vectors as a novel approach for scoring the sentences. Experiments wer...

OBJECTIVE To summarize recent research and present a selection of the best papers published in 2015 in the field of clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP). METHOD A systematic review of the literature was performed by the two section editors of the IMIA Yearbook NLP section by searching bibliographic databases with a focus on NLP efforts applied to clinical texts or aimed at a clinical ou...

Early systems for word sense disambiguation WSD often depended on individual tailor made lexical resources hand coded with as much lexical information as needed but of severely limited vocabulary size Recent studies tend to extract lexical informa tion from a variety of existing resources e g machine readable dictionaries corpora for broad coverage However this raises the issue of how to combin...

     This study focuses on the effect of user-friendly, impersonal, and hybrid texts on the reading comprehension ability of Iranian foreign language learners. Forty-five students of AlzahraUniversity were selected on the basis of their performance in a recent TOEFL. They were given three different texts (each group of 15 students was given one type) describing the same area of English usage, w...

This paper discusses an approach to planning the content of instructional texts. The research is based on a corpus study of 15 French procedural texts ranging from step--bystep device manuals to general artistic procedures. The approach taken starts from an AI task planner building a task representation, from which semantic carriers are selected. The most appropriate RST relations to communicat...