This study examines the linguistic structure of destination image using China as an example. The phrases the tourists use to describe China’s image follow the power-law distribution and exhibit the long tail pattern. The destination image is dominated by a few very popular phrases, but contains a large amount of phrases in small niches. Analysis on Google keyword search volumes shows that those...

The Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) has a long history within the literature, with conflicting reports concerning its underlying components and stability across different samples. This study examined the DES factor structure using advanced analytic procedures. Additionally, the impact of sexual victimization on the underlying components of the DES was explored, in order to examine whether ...

We derive the rhetorical structures of texts by means of two new, surface-form-based algorithms: one that identifies discourse usages of cue phrases and breaks sentences into clauses, and one that produces valid rhetorical structure trees for unrestricted natural language texts. The algorithms use information that was derived from a corpus analysis of cue phrases.

We present in this paper an approach to extract and structure noun phrases from text corpora. The proposed structure is based on a syntax network (head-modifier relationship) and association rules (text mining). We present the elements to be taken into account during the textual documents analysis and we detail the process used. By an experimentation, we show the effect of using the structure a...

A variety of verb phrases exist in Urdu including simple verb phrases, conjunct verb phrases and compound verb phrases. This paper explains the structure of Urdu verb phrases, and details a series of experiment to automatically tag them. Initially, a rule based model is developed using 21 linguistic rules for automatic VP chunking. A 100,000 word Urdu corpus is manually tagged with VP chunk tag...

La segmentation précise des tissus et des structures présents dans des IRM anatomique est indispensable à de nombreuses applications. La plupart des approches considèrent d’abord la segmentation des tissus puis ensuite celle des structures de manière indépendante. Nous proposons dans cet article une approche markovienne coopérative qui se fonde sur le raffinement mutuel des segmentations en tis...

Annotated corpora are essential resources for natural language processing. This paper describes our approach for building a corpus annotated with predicateargument structure on research abstracts in molecular biology domain. Observation of the records in a database of cell signaling events and corresponding research abstracts showed that extracting predicateargument structure is a useful interm...

Dans ce travail on expose un algorithme i de g~n~ration automatique, dont le but est: A ) De connaltre la capacit~ g~n~rative de la syntaxe obtenue dans l'exp6rience d'apprentissage automatique d~crite ~ afro d'~valuer son degr~ d'~labortion par rapport ~t la langue en gdndral. B) De construire certaines &apes importantes de l'automatisation des processus de traduction. C) De construire tin sys...

À partir du constat de l’emploi massif des mots-phrases/interjections «oui» et «non» dans la prose contemporaine soucieuse voix sa mise en récit, cet article se propose d’interroger les configurations syntaxiques énonciatives variées lesquelles ils apparaissent. Leurs emplois orchestrent réaiguillages énonciatifs entre, d’une part, récit discours, d’autre entre différentes formes discours rappo...