abstract: the research at hand discusses about the notion of the theme in persian scientific and literary genres from the point of view of halliday’s systemic functional grammar (sfg) and explains and determines the similarities and differences of the two genres in persian language. in this research, after mentioning the obvious differences of the two genres from the point of view of theme type...

In this project, we hope to classify movie scripts into genres based on a variety of NLP-related features extracted from the scripts. We devised two evaluation metrics to analyze the performance of two separate classifiers, a Naive Bayes Classifier and a Maximum Entropy Markov Model Classifier. Our two biggest challenges were the inconsistent format of the movie scripts and the multiway classif...

The present article shows that all scientific texts included in journals, magazines, and newspapers are vulnerable to the penetration of hedges and boosters.  However, it was found that scientific texts in the three corpora tended to open up the possibilities of alternative voices rather than narrowing them down. The relatively higher frequency of occurrence of hedges in comparison with booster...

This study explored the relationship between EFL learners’ vocabulary size, lexical coverage of the text and reading comprehension texts (narrative & argumentative genres). To this end, 120 male and female out of 180 students studying at Talesh Azad University were selected based on their performance on the Nelson Proficiency Test. A Nelson reading proficiency test was also administered in orde...

Connor et al. (2008) mention “specifying textual requirements of genres” (p.12) as one of the reasons which have motivated researchers in the analysis of writing. Members of each genre should be able to produce and retrieve these textual requirements appropriately to be considered communicatively proficient. One of the textual requirements of genres is regularities of specific forms and content...

This paper describes a machine learning approach to building an efficient, accurate and fast name spotting system. Finding names in free text is an important task in many text-based applications. Most previous approaches were based on hand-crafted modules encoding language and genre-specific knowledge. These approaches had at least two shortcomings: they required large amounts of time and exper...

In the following discussion I will examine the application of Wittgenstein’s concept of family resemblance to genre theory. Despite its popularity among literary theorists, there is sometimes a discrepancy between the loose concept of family resemblance, at least in its negative-radical version, and the practical assumptions made about genres. In order to overcome the inadequacies of existing a...