this study aims to delve into the unobservable dimensions of deciding and acting in a pragmatically significant speech event. utilizing a discourse completion test questionnaire, it seeks to find out the structure and pragmatic functions that lie behind efl learners’ choice of specific wording while engaged in performing a recurrent speech act in iran i.e. compliments. to this aim, 30 efl learn...

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for exploiting structural relations to track multiple objects that may undergo long-term occlusion and abrupt motion. We use a model-free approach that relies only on annotations given in the first frame of the video to track all the objects online, i.e. without knowledge from future frames. We initialize a probabilistic Attributed Relational Graph (AR...

The given article deals with a quantitative analysis of English compounds in six novels of the first half of the twentieth century. The objective of the article is twofold: a) we are intended to reveal the most frequent structural patterns of the English compounds statistically; b) it is necessary to determine and measure the cohesion for the English compounds. The material of the research is r...

Function-Described Graphs (FDGs) have been introduced as a representation of an ensemble of Attributed Graphs (AGs) for structural pattern recognition and a distance measure using restrictions between AGs and FDGs has been reported. Nevertheless, in real applications, AGs can be distorted by some external noise, and therefore some constraints have to be relaxed. To gain more flexibility and rob...

This paper presents an experimental system capable of recognizing forms and printed characters positioned on cylindrical objects in an industrial application. Forms are classified with structural pattern recognition methods while characters are recognized with a hybrid classifier utilizing both statistical and structural information. Training of form and character classifiers is performed using...

Although they might not agree with the precise terms of Moreno’s statement, most contemporary structural analysts would still subscribe to the view that visual images continue to play a key role in both exploring and presenting the patterns displayed by structural data. Among the many kinds of structural patterns that have been explored and presented visually, one stands out. Structural analyst...

Arrows illustrate a large variety of semantics in diagrams. An automated interpretation of arrows would be highly desirable in pen-based interfaces. This paper formalizes the structural patterns of arrows, and identifies three structural properties that contribute to the interpretation of arrows: (1) the assignment of components to three slots, (2) the semantic types of the components, and (3) ...

This lecture discusses the mathematical relationship between network structure and network utilization of transportation network. Network structure means the graph itself. Network utilization represent the aggregation of trajectories of agents in using the network graph. I show the similarity and relationship between the structural pattern of the network and network utilization.