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Humorous language cannot stand by its own since language makes sense only in the position of discourse, in the situational and cultural context. Discourse Analysis has an interpretive power to count for humor.
In order to explore whether the Chinese retrospective labels demonstrate the same features as the English counterparts, this study has compared 30 Chinese newspaper articles with 30 English ones, all of which are argumentative essays. The results show that different from the English counterparts, the Chinese retrospective labels usually convey non-evaluative old information and appear in pre-verbal...
Differences between natural languages in lexicology, grammar, semantics and pragmatics usually lead to mistakes in machine translation. These differences between languages are called curve phenomenon. This paper summarized fourteen kinds of curve phenomena between English and Chinese, and proposed a new method to solve curve phenomenon based on Semantic Element, especially importing context variable...
Identifiers are an important source of information during program understanding and maintenance. Programmers often use identifiers to build their mental models of the software artifacts. We have performed a preliminary study to examine the relation between the terms in identifiers, their spread in entities, and fault proneness. We introduced term entropy and context-coverage to measure how scattered...
In order to solve the problems in process-oriented writing class of English major and promote students' autonomy in the course learning, a corpus-based teaching mode is proposed in present paper. It analyzes the roles of corpus in English teaching and learning and designs a new type of writing class arrangement, which can nicely apply advanced technology of modern corpus into the process of writing...
Combinational ambiguity is a challenging issue in Chinese word segmentation in that its disambiguation depends on the contextual information. This paper collects contextual information of 28 typical combinational ambiguity strings, and makes use of lexical, syntactic and semantic knowledge and large scale corpus to summarize the rules of these combinational ambiguity strings. Using these rules to...
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