This paper investigates the application of text classification methods to investigate diatopic variation in Portuguese journalistic texts. We compare the language used in Portuguese newspapers written in Brazil, Macau, and Portugal under the assumption that the more similar language varieties are, the more difficult it is for algorithms to discriminate between them. We present two sets of exper...

In this paper, we describe the results of gender identification from Team DUBL. We used a topic modeling approach for identifying the author’s gender based on his/her written texts. The model was trained on the RusProfiling PAN 2017 Twitter Corpus that contains data in the Russian language. Themodel has been evaluated on texts of other genres, including texts such as letters to a friend, online...

In the paper, we introduce two software applications for automatic evaluation of coherence in Czech texts called EVALD – Evaluator of Discourse. The first one – EVALD 1.0 – evaluates texts written by native speakers of Czech on a five-step scale commonly used at Czech schools (grade 1 is the best, grade 5 is the worst). The second application is EVALD 1.0 for Foreigners assessing texts by non-n...

Most introductory robotics textbooks have been written from the mechanical engineering perspective. These texts spend hundreds of pages studying gears, motors, sensors, and other related topics. While a computer scientist needs to know something about these topics, he or she certainly is not concerned with them to the degree that the texts cover. Meanwhile, the texts leave out many of the topic...

This workshop will present the importance of creative work in the clinical practice of the clinician or bioethicist. First I will present some of the narratological theories of close reading and aesthetic theories of creative writing. We will join in close reading of one or two clinical texts and literary texts, creative writing in the context of those texts, and then reading to one another wha...