This pal~;r presents an analysis and synthesis of the factors relevant to the decision to use a cleft construction in discourse. The model described, based on a corpus of 587 naturally-occurring cleft constructions in written and spoken discourse, consists of two stages. The first stage concerus the decision to use a cleft construction rather than a non-cleft; the second describes the factors r...

In this paper, we describe the creation of rules for generating Chinese zero anaphors through a sequence of experiments in a stepwise enhanced manner. In the experiments , we basically examined the occurrence of zero anaphors in a real text and the ones generated by the algorithms employing the rules, assuming the same semantic and discourse structures as the text. The factors of locality, synt...

We investigated whether modal information elicited empirical effects with regard to discourse processing. That is, like tense information, one of the linguistic factors shown to be relevant in organizing a discourse representation is modality, where the mood of an utterance indicates whether or not it is asserted. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used in order to address the question of the...

One of the key requirements in understanding a text is deciding how successive utterances relate to one another. Anaphors help in this respect by picking out entities already existing in the discourse and indicating the referent to which the new information encoded in the utterance should be attached. Sometimes, the interpretation of an anaphor is determined entirely by the morphosyntactic feat...

Introduction From controversial beginnings, the term Web 2.0 has become associated with a fairly well-defined set of popular Web-based platforms characterized by social interaction and user-generated content. Most of the content on such sites is human discourse, via text, audio, video, and/or static images. It is therefore, in principle, of theoretical and practical interest to scholars of comp...

Repetition and semantic-associative priming effects have been demonstrated for words in nonstructured contexts (i.e., word pairs or lists of words) in numerous behavioral and electrophysiological studies. The processing of a word has thus been shown to benefit from the prior presentation of an identical or associated word in the absence of a constraining context. An examination of such priming ...

We are looking at how new forms of document interface can be used to support new forms of scholarly discourse, and ultimately, new models of scholarly publishing. The vehicle we use to conduct this research is the Digital Document Discourse Environment (D3E). D3E is an experimental system supporting the publication of web-based documents with integrated discourse facilities and embedded interac...

this study explains the formation of islamist discourse in turkey and its impact on its foreign policy (with an emphasis on justice and development party -akp). the findings which are based on discourse analysis of ernesto laclau and chantal mouffe, indicate that the islam-minded modern turkey actors (in akp) could weaken one of the main aspects of kemalist ideology in a democratic and peaceful...

The purpose of this paper is to identify e ective factors for selecting discourse organization cue phrases in instruction dialogue that signal changes in discourse structure such as topic shifts and attentional state changes. By using a machine learning technique, a variety of features concerning discourse structure, task structure, and dialogue context are examined in terms of their e ectivene...