Explaining why the same passage may have different rhetorical structures when conveyed in different languages remains an open question. Starting from a trilingual translation corpus, this paper aims to provide a new qualitative method for the comparison of rhetorical structures in different languages and to specify why translated texts may differ in their rhetorical structures. To achieve these...

OBJECTIVES The research in the Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) field is analyzed according to the journals indexed in ISI Web of Science. Science Mapping Analysis (SMA) is used to provide and overview of the conceptual evolution of the CAM field. METHODS The software SciMAT is used to detect and visualize the hidden themes and their evolution over a consecutive span of years. It ...

This paper presents an approach towards visual data mining in large-scale virtual 3D city models. The increasing availability of massive thematic data related to urban areas such as socio-demographic data, traffic data, or real-estate data, raises the question how to get insight and how to effectively visualize contained information. In our approach, we extend a real-time 3D city model system b...

The organization of discourse is multifaceted. Theories that take a single perspective on discourse structure, examining for example only goal satisfaction or textual coherence or ignoring the context in which a text was generated, will fail to identify the full functional significance of the content and organization of text. The task of generating coherent text to meet some communicative inten...

Automatic summarization is an active research area in natural language processing. This paper has proposed a special method that produces text summary by detecting thematic areas in Chinese document. The specificity of the method is that the produced summary can both cover many different themes and reduce its redundancy obviously at the same time. In this method, the detection of latent themati...

Following Swales’ (1981) definition of genre analysis many scholars have attempted to characterize good academic writing; however, this can be difficult and worrying for non-native writers. Since a well-written abstract encourages readers more effectively, the present study intended to find differences in the rhetorical structures of abstracts by TEFL students from the University of Tehran (UT)...