In this article we will focus on premodifying -ing participles in English. By premodifying -ing participles we refer to NP-internal -ing forms, such as the ones found in a charming man or a barking dog. Our first goal is to see how these participles are used in four registers of Present-Day English: academic prose, newspaper articles, fiction and conversations. Furthermore, we will attempt to f...

In this paper, we propose a POS tagging method using more than 60 thousand entries of Taiwanese-Mandarin translation dictionary and 10 million words of Mandarin training data to tag Taiwanese. The literary written Taiwanese corpora have both Romanization script and Han-Romanization mixed script, the genre includes prose, fiction and drama. We follow tagset drawn up by CKIP. We develop word alig...

Writing is analyzed as thinking that uses paper or other media to externalize and manipulate symbolic expressions. Mental operations of natural language can occur somewhat independently, and they communicate well with language that has been written, but for skilled writing these operations need elaborate installation in the mind. We explore four methods to see how expert writers externalize tho...

The dimensionality of the paragraph space of five corpora of different languages (English, French, modern Greek, Homeric Greek and German), genres (fiction and non-fiction) and intended audiences (children, adolescents and adults) is investigated. Term by paragraph occurrence data is processed by whitening, and the correlation dimension is calculated. All five corpora exhibit a weave-like struc...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this research is to explore the capacity of story to connect to a health-related videogame, as well as the qualities that may increase efficacy by making the story compelling. Parents of 3-5-year-old children often report difficulty getting their children to eat vegetables, which are protective against chronic illnesses. Videogames may be vehicles for training parenting...

The article is devoted to theoretical exploration of modern hybrid speculative fiction. This term comprises a huge body creative works which are written at the intersection genres related prose. On one hand, fiction rooted in post-modern epoch, on other it returns principles genre genesis, flourished beginning 20th century. tendency eclecticism common feature great number and seems be an effici...