With the rapid development of social media and social networks, spontaneously user generated content like tweets and forum posts have become important materials for tracking people’s opinions and sentiments online. In this paper we investigate the limitations of traditional linguistic-based approaches to sentiment analysis when applied to these informal genres. Inspired by various social cognit...

new epic poetry is a modern version of the mainstream epic tradition whose features have changed to meet the requirements of modern taste. the most outstanding poet in employing this form is ahmad shamloo, one of the most renowned contemporary iranian poets. to highlight the changes in the content and formal linguistic features of the traditional and new forms of epic, the present study compare...

This study investigates relationships between global oral proficiency ratings and measures of grammatical competence in the acquisition of Korean as a second language. Data were collected on the linguistic abilities of learners’ at 1+ to 4 on the ILR scale, focusing on perception and production in phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis and collocation. The results show that (i) most of the tasks ...

Prosodic boundary strength (PBS) refers to the degree of disjuncture between two chunks of speech. It is affected by both linguistic and para-linguistic communicative intentions playing thus an important role in both speech generation and recognition tasks. Among several PBS signals, we focus in this paper on pitch-related discontinuities in boundaries conveying linguistically meaningful contra...

Globally, human beings have always faced numerous problems, such as drought, floods, wars, etc. At this dawn of the twenty first century, world is experiencing unprecedented challenges which may likely get worse. Climate change, wars with their millions refugees, natural and man-made disasters, epidemics, food security, deforestation, political disturbances are among most recurrent problems. Ma...

This paper presents a joint extraction and prediction framework for intonation modeling applied to Fujisaki’s intonation model for text-to-speech conversion. Previous methods in the area extract the parameters of accent and phrase commands for each sentence. Then, these parameters are related to linguistic features for prediction. In our approach commands that share the same linguistic features...

H uman language is unique among communication systems in being a cultural system characterized by prodigious and pervasive variation and flux on many dimensions [1, 2]. Until the advent of global communication, linguistic varieties were predominantly localized to spatially bound areas, and much research in dialectology has been devoted to understanding the shape and distribution of these dialec...