The purpose of extractive summarization is to automatically select indicative sentences, passages, or paragraphs from an original document according to a certain target summarization ratio, and then sequence them to form a concise summary. In this paper, in contrast to conventional approaches, our objective is to deal with the extractive summarization problem under a probabilistic modeling fram...

Extractive speech summarization, aiming to automatically select an indicative set of sentences from a spoken document so as to concisely represent the most important aspects of the document, has become an active area for research and experimentation. An emerging stream of work is to employ the language modeling (LM) framework along with the Kullback-Leibler divergence measure for extractive spe...

Parallel web pages are important source of training data for statistical machine translation. In this paper, we present a new approach to sentence alignment on parallel web pages. Parallel web pages tend to have parallel structures,and the structural correspondence can be indicative information for identifying parallel sentences. In our approach, the web page is represented as a tree, and a sto...

Sentence repetition task has been proven to be a tool that can detect language difficulties and is indicative of abnormal language. In Malaysia, studies on the abilities bilingual children in sentence (SR) tasks are sparse. Therefore, this study aimed at examining morphosyntactic 60 Malay aged 4;0 6;11 based SR (L1) English (L2). task, participants were asked listen carefully sentences being re...

The paper discusses a prominent one of Kratzer’s (1986, 1991, 2012) arguments against material implication analyses the denotation (indicative) conditional sentences. This is argument based on sentence Most time, if man buys horse, he pays cash for it. It shown that makes prediction does conform to speakers’ intuitions, contrary claim. also argues Lewis’s (1975) attack sentences examples where ...

Summarization is a way to represent same information in concise way with equal sense. This can be categorized in two type Abstractive and Extractive type. Our work is focused around Extractive summarization. A generic approach to extractive summarization is to consider sentence as an entity, score each sentence based on some indicative features to ascertain the quality of sentence for inclusion...

The aim of this essay is to examine two challenges that the imperative logic poses to the received view of sentence moods. According to the received view, there are three logico-semantic moods, indicative, imperative and interrogative; and there are two main components in natural language sentences, modal element and sentence radical. First we will examine whether change expression forces us to...

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