Three experiments investigated how font emphasis influences reading and remembering discourse. Although past work suggests that contrastive pitch contours benefit memory by promoting encoding of salient alternatives, it is unclear both whether this effect generalizes to other forms of linguistic prominence and how the set of alternatives is constrained. Participants read discourses in which som...

background uterine cancer stays the most prevalent gynecologic malignancy in developed countries. providing suitable solutions to treat this disease is required to the early diagnosis of this cancer. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of multiple-site lymph node sampling in patients with the endometrioid type of endometrial cancer. patients and methods demographi...

This paper discusses an approach of modelling design rational expressed in natural language sentences into a discourse model. The discourse model is used to classify captured rationale into discourse categories by taking into account semantic and pragmatic relationships between two design elements. It is expected that accessibility and reusability of captured rationale is improved since retriev...

We present two experiments on the automated detection of racist discourse in Dutch social media. In both experiments, multiple classifiers are trained on the same training set. This training set consists of Dutch posts retrieved from two public Belgian social media pages which are likely to attract racist reactions. The posts were labeled as racist or non-racist by multiple annotators, who reac...

Ambiguity is very high for location names. For example, there are 23 cities named ‘Buffalo’ in the U.S. Based on our previous work, this paper presents a refined hybrid approach to geographic references using our information extraction engine InfoXtract. The InfoXtract location normalization module consists of local pattern matching and discourse co-occurrence analysis as well as default senses...

There exist various different discourse annotation schemes that vary both in the perspectives of discourse structure considered and the granularity of textual units that are annotated. Comparison and integration of multiple schemes have the potential to provide enhanced information. However, the differing formats of corpora and tools that contain or produce such schemes can be a barrier to thei...

the process of globalization entails the acquisition of a construct, cultural intelligence, with which efl students can function appropriately in intercultural situations. this study was, first, intended to find the relationship between cultural intelligence and the use of expressions of gratitude by iranian efl learners. second, it sought to determine whether there were any significant differe...

In this paper we will present our ongoing work on a plan-based discourse processor developed in the context of the Enthusiast Spanish to English translation system as part of the JANUS multilingual speech-to-speech translation system. We will demonstrate that theories of discourse which postulate a strict tree structure of discourse on either the intentional or attentional level are not totally...

Discourse segmentation is the division of a text into minimal discourse segments, which form the leaves in the trees that are used to represent discourse structures. A definition of elementary discourse segments in German is provided by adapting widely used segmentation principles for English minimal units, while considering punctuation, morphology, sytax, and aspects of the logical document st...