Musical meta-creation is an artistic and technical field in which the results (i.e. music) often cannot be empirically tested. The processes by which music is generated, however, afford a rational level of discourse. This paper suggests ways in which we might orient our discussion and our system-building in order to explore musical possibility and use computational modeling to grow into a new k...

Discourse studies attempt to describe how context affects text, and how text progresses from one sentence to the next. Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) offers a model of language to describe how information flow varies according to context and co-text through the Textual metafunction, especially using the functions of Participant Identification and Tracking, Theme and Information Structure...

This paper poses the question of how academic writers present themselves to the audience and focuses on the functions of forms of self-reference in Czech and Slovak scientific discourse. For scientific texts, the Latin rhetoric tradition recommended the so called pluralis modestiae or pluralis auctoris as an appropriate linguistic means of self-presentation of the writer, conveying his modest a...

ReaderBench is an automated software framework designed to support both students and tutors by making use of text mining techniques, advanced natural language processing, and social network analysis tools. Read‐ erBench is centered on comprehension prediction and assessment based on a cohesion-based representation of the discourse applied on different sources (e.g., textual materials, behavior ...

Information from news articles can be used to study correlations between textual discourse and socioeconomic patterns. This work focuses on the task of understanding how words contained in the news as well as the news outlets themselves may relate to a set of indicators, such as economic sentiment or unemployment rates. The bilinear nature of the applied regression model facilitates learning jo...

Many organizations possess large collections of textual reports that document how a problem is solved or analysed, e.g. medical patient records, industrial accident reports, lawsuit records and investigation reports. Effective use of expert knowledge contained in these reports may greatly increase productivity of the organization. In this article, we propose a method for automatic extraction of...

The article deals with the linguopoetics of deixis as one key mechanisms for expressing subjectivity in artistic communication. aim study is to discuss specifics deictic words and constructions experimental poetic discourse. second part analyzes functions personal, spatial, discourse (textual) visual layout a text (spatial design verse). material analysis encompasses Edward Cummings’ verse, con...

This paper emerges in the course of a doctoral study which explores the role of cultural texts (those found in both curriculum and popular culture) in the construction of adolescent girls’ ‘envisionings’ of womanhood. The paper offers a feminist post-structuralist/psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of one curriculum text and proceeds with a discourse analysis of three girls’ responses to t...