Classification and abstraction of narrative content is a problem that spans several domains and disciplines ranging from Film Studies and Narratology to Adaptive Hypermedia and Computational Preference Modeling. Applications for automatic recognition and classification of narrative content range from commercial recommendation systems to interactive digital storytelling (IDS) systems. The notion...

The study presented in this paper explores the current state of genre evolution on the web through web users’ perception. More precisely, it explores the perception of genres when users are faced not only with prototypical genre exemplars but also with hybrid or individualized web pages, and interpret the subjects’ perception in term of genre evolution Although this exploration is partial (23 l...

The study presented in this paper explores the current state of genre evolution on the web through web users’ perception. More precisely, it explores the perception of genres when users are faced not only with prototypical genre exemplars but also with hybrid or individualized web pages, and interpret the subjects’ perception in term of genre evolution Although this exploration is partial (23 l...

Object Information-miscellaneous information about an actor Script-the dialogue of a video Representational Frame Height-height in pixels of video Frame Width-width in pixels of video Frame Rate-number of frames per second 22 Vodasaurus Rex, the more complex interface has been judged as easy to use when creating complex queries in a pilot user study. Bibliographic Title-the title of a video Gen...

0. Introduction Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) has become an increasingly well investigated research area (cf. Herring 2001), and has led to the uncovering of interesting sociolinguistic findings involving variation (e.g., Herring 2003, 2004). For example, in their investigation of the relationship among language, gender, and genre in weblogs, Herring and Paolillo (2006) observe that the...

The purpose of the present study was first to offer a tentative solution to the problems observed in writing pedagogy in Iran by devising a more comprehensive approach to genre-based writing instruction. In the second phase, a quasi-experimental research design was adopted to determine how effective the model was in writing instruction, compared with the traditional, product-oriented approach, ...

To produce an adequate translation, language students are required to learn varieties of language features including syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Considering the curriculum language learners are face with, one can claim that almost all language students in Iran are taught these features in their academic settings including linguistic courses. Yet, there are some aspects of language which a...

kurmanji is probably the most well known variety of kurdish language. apart from such countries as turkey, iraq, syria, and some areas in western iran, it is spoken in khorasan-e shomali and khorasan-e razavi provinces in north-east iran. the residents of biglar –a village near quchan in north-west khorasan-e razavi province- as well as many other people living in the neighboring villages speak...

the first spoken dialogue system developed for the persian language is introduced. this is a ticket reservation system with persian asr and nlu modules. the focus of the paper is on learning the dialogue management module. in this work, real on-line training data are used during the learning process. for on-line learning, the effect of the variations of discount factor (g) on the learning speed...