Spatial information is information bound to spatial entities such as regions. It is based on the spatial structure alone (the valley includes the field) or connects thematic predicates with spatial entities (Joan Smith owns the field). Formal models of spatial information are concerned with the question of how the structure of space is related to inferences about spatial information. Therefore,...

Thematic structure, an important factor for textual metafunction, plays a significant role in inspecting and promoting the textual coherence. With a theoretical statement of Thematic theory and TP patterns, this paper proposes the feasibility of the Thematic Operational Approach in the teaching of college English writing. This approach is proved to not only strengthen students’ application awar...

In Semantic Role Labeling (SRL), it is reasonable to globally assign semantic roles due to strong dependencies among arguments. Some relations between arguments significantly characterize the structural information of argument structure. In this paper, we concentrate on thematic hierarchy that is a rank relation restricting syntactic realization of arguments. A loglinear model is proposed to ac...

This paper provides a corpus-based generic characterization of appointment-scheduling dialogues—a type of task-oriented conversation—by concentrating on the rhetorical and thematic choices made by the speakers that produce them. The analytical tools used for this study are Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), the notion of Theme as defined in Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Thematic Progress...

Thematic map symbol is a basic component of thematic map language and it plays an important role in expressing the thematic content. However, the extensity of users leads to the diversity and complexity of the thematic symbols and expression methods, and most of the thematic maps do not have a fixed format and norms like topographic map. At the same time, we can not require all the users to be ...

Background and Aim: The purpose of the present study is to map the coronavirus domain citation network to better understand this domain based on all other citation networks.  Materials and Methods: The present study is applied in terms of purpose, and is descriptive scientometrics in terms of type, which has been done with the all-citation method. In this study, all scientific publications on ...

In this paper we propose a framework of Informationbased Case Grammar (ICG). This grammatical formalism entails that the lexical entry for each word contain both semantic and syntactic feature structures. In the feature structure of a phrasal head, we encode syntactic and semantic constraints on grammatical phrasal patterns in terms of thematic structures, and encode the precedence relations in...