Saramago's work was masterful in evoking and/or provoking the past and its crystallized discourses, with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991) being a notable example. In this article, I propose revisit Saramago’s novel order argue that question mobilizes profanation of biblical figures at lexical level. More specifically, light Agambenian concept (2007), narrator characters, through thei...

Anaphora is a rhetorical device commonly used in written texts. It denotes the use of terms referring to previously-mentioned entities, concepts, or events. In this paper, the definite anaphora in Chinese texts is addressed and empirical approaches to tackle abstract anaphors are presented. The resolution is built on the association between target anaphors and the corresponding referents in the...

The lack of a sufficient amount of data tailored for a task is a well-recognized problem for many statistical NLP methods. In this paper, we explore whether data sparsity can be successfully tackled when classifying language proficiency levels in the domain of learner-written output texts. We aim at overcoming data sparsity by incorporating knowledge in the trained model from another domain con...

This paper aims at describing the building of the online corpora on Philippine languages as part of the online repository system called Palito. There are five components of the corpora: the top four major Philippine languages which are Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano and Hiligaynon and the Filipino Sign Language (FSL). The four languages are composed of 250,000-word written texts each, whereas the FS...

Gender Identification is a task where we have to identify the gender of the author for written texts. An hybrid approach has been designed by combining deep neural network and a rule-based classifier for russian texts. LSTM and BiLSTM have been used as a part of Neural Network due to their capability to learn long-term dependencies.

In the article a prayer against gout from the early 19th century is analysed, which reflects the surviving medieval theurgical view of healing. It also sheds light on a less known sphere of Croatian Glagolitic texts, i.e. on texts with medical content written in Glagolitic script in Croatian lands.

While the textual production of Normandy’s Cistercian abbeys has not lacked for scholarly attention, a detailed study historical writing in duchy remains to be written. This article looks small part fill this historiographical gap by examining those works produced and copied Normandy between beginning 12th end 13th centuries. In doing so, it aims shed new light on sorts texts or written White M...

The KAI,II'SOS prototype we have developed at the IBM Paris Scientific Center is able to analyze texts written in l;reneh and to produce a semantic representalion of these texts expressed as a set of inter-related Conceptual Graphs [6, 1]. It uses a semantic lexicon which contains, for each word to be defined, one or more Conceptual Graphs corresponding to one or more meanings of the word. The ...

This paper reports our contribution to the 2013 NLI Shared Task. The purpose of the task was to train a machine-learning system to identify the native-language affiliations of 1,100 texts written in English by nonnative speakers as part of a high-stakes test of general academic English proficiency. We trained our system on the new TOEFL11 corpus, which includes 11,000 essays written by nonnativ...