The article focuses on the factors that cause linear and vertical sentence extension of multiple complex-compound sentences used in English fictional literature. Considering the sentence structure as a combination of 2 Units – paratactic and hypotactic the authors define the structural peculiarities of paratactic and hypotactic units including the number of clauses and its bonds. The extension ...

Semantic prosody is typically referred to as an evaluative function of certain words or multiword items appearing within collocates positive negative meaning. The present study deals with the semantic (context properties) extended lexical units (ELUs) according psycholinguistic variables ‘valence’ (emotional positivity), ‘arousal’ (excitement, mood-enhancement), and ‘concreteness’. object inves...

The paper presents a novel approach to semantic search and navigation in office-like document collections. The approach is based on a semantic document model that we have developed to enable unique identification, semantic annotation, and semantic linking of document units of officelike documents. In order to semantically annotate document units and to link semantically related document units, ...

We present an algorithm for computing the semantic similarity between two sentences. It adopts the hypothesis that semantic similarity is a monotonically increasing function of the degree to which (1) the two sentences contain similar semantic units, and (2) such units occur in similar semantic contexts. With a simplistic operationalization of the notion of semantic units with individual words,...