This thesisapplies the Data-Oriented Parsing framework in two areas:parsing & literature. The data-oriented approach rests on the assumptionthat re-use of chunks of training data can be detected and exploited attest time. Syntactic tree fragments form the common thread in the thesis.Chapter 2 presents a method to efficiently extract them from treebanks,based on heuristic...

Most definitions of literature have been criterial definitions, definitions based on a list of criteria which all literary works must meet. However, more current theories of meaning take the view that definitions are based on prototypes: there is broad agreement about good examples that meet all of the prototypical characteristics, and other examples are related to the prototypes by family rese...

The generation of formal poetry involves both complex creativity usually exercised by a human poet and strict algorithmic restrictions regarding the metrical structure of the poem determined by literary tradition. Starting from a generating system that enforces automatically the metrical restrictions, this paper presents a model for the literary style of a user based on four key features for us...

objectives: language development is often very slower in hearing impaired children compared with their normal peers. hearing impairment during childhood affects all aspects of speech production and language acquisition. it seems that hearing impaired people suffer from language and speech impairments such as production of complex linguistic structures. the purpose of this study is to determine ...

This book is organized according to the major periods of Japanese history – ancient (up to 794), Heian (794–1185), medieval (1185–1600), early modern or Edo (1600–1867), and modern (1868–present). Each part begins with a brief historical overview, followed by short essays on major genres, texts, and authors. A number of the traditional genres – such as waka (classical Japanese poetry), kanshi (...