This paper investigates learner-initiated responses to English language teachers’ referential questions and learner initiatives after teachers’ feedback moves in meaning-focused question-answer sequences to analyze how interactional practices of language teachers, their initiation and feedback moves, facilitate learner initiatives. Classroom discourse research has largely neglected learner init...

This paper describes a lexical system developed for the main task of Question Answering for Machine Reading Evaluation 2013 (QA4MRE). The presented system executes the preprocessing of test documents, and generates hypotheses consisting of the question text combined with text from possible answers for the question. The hypotheses are compared to sentences from the text by the means of a set sim...

this article examines women's discursive space of physical activity in order to answer an important question: why most women have problems with regular physical activity and cannot permanently benefit from a long-term regular exercise program. the analysis was performed with concepts discussed in the discourse theory of laclau and mouffe(1995). there are two main discourses in the women&ap...

This paper proposes a new approach to discourse directionality, a phenomenon which, as is well known, is neither well defined nor adequately accounted for. Directionality is the property of (a part of) a discourse to be directed towards a 'goal', usually implying asymmetric functional relations between the discourse units involved. The direction of such an asymmetric discourse relation depends ...

Predicting and comparing algorithm performance on graph instances is challenging for multiple reasons. First, there usually no standard set of to benchmark performance. Second, using existing generators results in a restricted spectrum difficulty the resulting graphs are not diverse enough draw sound conclusions. That why recent work proposes new methodology generate by an evolutionary algorith...

Semanticists have demonstrated repeatedly over the past twenty years that intonation often conveys information important for determining the content of a discourse. For example, intonation is important for marking focus in English, which in turn is important for interpreting sentences with focus sensitive adverbs like even and only (Beaver and Clark 2003). Intonation is also important in markin...