over the past twenty-five years, researchers have expressed considerable interest in titles of academic publications. unfortunately, conference paper titles (cpts) have only recently begun to receive attention. the aim of this study, therefore, is to investigate the text length, syntactic structure, and lexicon of cpts in applied linguistics. a data set of 698 titles was selected from the 2008 ...

We report the results of a study that investigates the agreement of anaphoric annotations. The study focuses on the influence of the factors text length and text type on a corpus of scientific articles and newspaper texts. In order to measure inter-annotator agreement we compare existing approaches and we propose to measure each step of the annotation process separately instead of measuring the...

This paper tackles two basic problems of quantitative linguistics: firstly the “word length” and secondly the text length in terms of type and token numbers. It has to be shown that these two basic properties of a text are directly related. The interrelation between word length and text length can be captured by an appropriate mathematical model; hence a law-like status of the interrelation bet...

Optical character recognition (OCR) is the most commonly used technique to convert printed material into electronic form. Using OCR, large repositories of machine readable text can be created in a short time. An information retrieval system can then be used to search through large information bases thus created. Many information retrieval systems use sophisticated term weighting functions to im...