The structure of a discourse is reflected in many aspects of its linguistic realization, including its lexical, prosodic, syntactic, and semantic nature. Multiparty dialog contains a particular kind of discourse structure, the dialog act (DA). Like other types of structure, the dialog act sequence of a conversation is also reflected in its lexical, prosodic, and syntactic realization. This pape...

  This paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. The aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in English and published in England and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in Persian from Iranian publications. For this purpose, the frequency...

LFG encodes linguistic generalizations not in terms of formal relations in a type hierarchy, but in terms of relations between descriptions of structures. An LFG functional description – a collection of equations – can be given a name, and this name can be used to stand for those equations in linguistic descriptions. In computational treatments, these named descriptions are generally referred t...

Approaches to lexical semantics often rely on denotational overlap with English words (or their systematized scientific offspring) to establish the meanings and groupings of lexemes in other languages and typically ignore the local facts of morphosyntactic distribution and characteristic denota­ tional range. By contrast, this paper illustrates the importance of morpho­ syntactic distributional...

Fluent aphasia of the anomic and Wernicke’s type is characterized by word retrieval difficulties. However, in fluent aphasic speech, grammatical deviations have been observed as well. There is debate as to whether these grammatical problems are caused by the word retrieval deficit, by an additional grammatical deficit, or by an integration deficit. Verbs are an interesting word class in this re...

This work belongs to a family of research efforts, called microtheories and aimed at describing the static meaning of all lexical categories in several languages in the framework of the MikroKosmos project on computational semantics. The latter also involves other static microtheories describing world knowledge and syntax-semantics mapping as well as dynamic microtheories connected with the act...

Writing thesis is a process of constant interaction between the student and academic advisor, but writing correctly is a complex task for students even if they have the support of a teacher. The elaboration of the thesis document requires the implementation of a methodology and procedures, which constitute the elements of the format and structure in the thesis. This work shows an intelligent tu...

Guiding students on writing is a hard and time consuming chore for advisors, since requires several iterations before achieving an acceptable level. Normally, when advising students close to graduation, most questions are about the structure of the thesis project. Issues such as the correct wording or abuse of certain terms within a title, problem statement, objectives and justification become ...