This paper presents a new annotation tool for aligned bilingual corpora, which allows the annotation of a wide range of information, ranging from information about words (such as part-of-speech tags or named-entities) to quite complex annotation schemas involving links between aligned segments, such as co-reference or translation equivalence between aligned segments in the two languages. The an...

This paper describes the development of text-to-speech corpora for four South African languages. The approach followed investigated the possibility of using low-cost methods including informal recording environments and untrained volunteer speakers. This objective and the additional future goal of expanding the corpus to increase coverage of South Africa’s 11 official languages necessitated exp...

Chemistry research papers are a primary source of information about chemistry, as in any scientific field. The presentation of the data is, predominantly, unstructured information, and so not immediately susceptible to processes developed within chemical informatics for carrying out chemistry research by information processing techniques. At one level, extracting the relevant information from r...

Local coherence analysis is the task of deriving the (most likely) coherence relation holding between two elementary discourse units or, recursively, larger spans of text. The primary source of information for this step is the connectives provided by a language for, more or less explicitly, signaling the relations. Focusing here on causal coherence relations, we propose a lexical resource that ...

this article was written based on the key concept of polysystem theory which, in translating any literary text, emphasizes the transference of the social systems in which a text is embedded. as stated by tynjanov (1978a), polysystem theory saw translated literature as a system operating in the larger social systems of the target text. thus, the task of understanding as well as transferring such...

This paper examines regional and grammatical effects on the English particle verb alternation. We report on a judgment experiment and a Twitter corpus study designed to address Hughes et al.’s (2005) claim that the continuous order is favored in Scotland while the discontinuous order is favored in Southern England. The results from both the acceptability judgment study and the Twitter corpus re...

The recent interest in sociomaterial practices and forms of imbrication of social and material resources in e.g., studies of the use of information technology and information systems in organizations has called for new theoretical developments to enact and fully understand materiality. This article examines the work of French philosopher Gilbert Simondon as an important, yet to date little expl...

The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented form of poetry translation practiced by poets. Variously called a “translation” or “adaptation,” an “imitation” or “version,” the resulting text may have departed so widely from its source as to constitute a wholesale revision or it may have involved a source language of which the poet-translator was ignorant, therefore requiring the use of a clo...

Sentiment analysis is the process of identifying the subjective information in the source materials towards an entity. It is a subfield of text and web mining. Web is a rich and progressively expanding source of information. Sentiment analysis can be modelled as a text classification problem. Text classification suffers from the high dimensional feature space and feature sparsity problems. The ...

Nowadays, Internet is the main source to get information from blogs, encyclopedias, discussion forums, source code repositories, and more resources which are available just one click away. The temptation to re-use these materials is very high. Even source codes are easily available through a simple search on the Web. There is a need of detecting potential instances of source code re-use. Source...