Discourse segmentation is the division of a text into minimal discourse segments, which form the leaves in the trees that are used to represent discourse structures. A definition of elementary discourse segments in German is provided by adapting widely used segmentation principles for English minimal units, while considering punctuation, morphology, sytax, and aspects of the logical document st...

In this article we present a model of human written text based on statistical mechanics consideration. The empirical derivation of the potential energy for the parts of the text and the calculation of the thermodynamic parameters of the system, show that the “specific heat” corresponds to the semantic classification of the words in the text, separating keywords, function words and common words....

The problem of automatically determining the gender of a document's author would appear to be a more subtle problem than those of categorization by topic or authorship attribution. Nevertheless, it is shown that automated text categorization techniques can exploit combinations of simple lexical and syntactic features to infer the gender of the author of an unseen formal written document with ap...

This contribution presents the results of comparison of Dutch texts written by bilinguals I) (speaking French and Dutch), with Dutch texts regarded as STANDARD WRITTEN DUTCH. The attention was focussed on French loan-words appearing in both types of texts and the differences in their use. Certain generalizations as to the mechanisms of interference are suggested. The materials used for the pres...

Repetition is the process of repeating a word stated earlier in text either same form or with some modifications. It one key signaling devices available for setting up relations and, thereby, patterning discourse text. This study textual analysis role that repetition plays English texts. aims at investigating different roles these Moreover, it finding out if contributes to making explicit logic...

We argue the case for abstract document structure as a separate descriptive level in the analysis and generation of written texts. The purpose of this representation is to mediate between the message of a text (i.e., its discourse structure) and its physical presentation (i.e., its organization into graphical constituents like sections, paragraphs, sentences, bulleted lists, figures, and footno...