The representation of temporal information in text represents a significant computational challenge. The problem is particularly acute in the case of literary texts, which tend to be massively underspecified, often relying on a network of semantic relations to establish times and timings. This paper shows how a model based on threaded directed acyclic graphs makes it possible to capture a range...

The epigraphic record from Palmyra brings light on the organization of temples: personnel, management feasts, economy and ritual practices towards certain deities like Allat Shai ‘al-Qaum. These texts were previously called in research literature “sacred laws”and what scholarly debate nowadays labels with term “ritual norms.”The aim this paper, divided temple behavior, is to understand through ...

In this paper, we describe lexical needs for spoken and written French surface processing, like automatic text correction, speech recognition and synthesis. We present statistical observations made on a vocabulary compiled from real texts like articles. These texts have been used for building a recorded speech database called BREF. Machine Communication), this database is intended for dictation...

Text classification and text gradation are important for language teachers. Profiling readability studies examine textual linguistic features that determine difficulty. Arabic, as an under-resourced language, suffers from a lack of such which results in material developers textbook writers relying on their intuitions experiences selecting appropriate texts. At the classroom level, teachers ofte...

Although most young children seem to master reading skills in the early grades of elementary school, many struggle with texts as they move through middle school and high school. Why do children who seem to be proficient readers in third grade have trouble comprehending texts in later grades? To answer this question, Nonie Lesaux describes what is known about reading development and instruction,...