1. Though comic books and graphic novels are earning more serious academic consideration than ever, in relation to one of the foremost goals of twentieth century art and literature, comic books may be more important and innovative than even the most open-minded of scholars have yet to realize. Comics, graphic novels, and sequential art belong to a rich artistic and literary tradition due in no ...

What may be considered as the greatest emergency in contemporary world is lack of a sense emergency; prevailing feeling that everything fine, that, despite ongoing crises, we live only acceptable system, and it impossible to imagine any alternative it. Mainstream digital games, by offering repetitive, standardised, predictable forms gameplay, focusing on technological advancement, exploiting wo...

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...