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Topics and topicalization in Amharic

jall, 2007
Abstract The paper examines the information structure of Amharic sentences with regard to topicalization. The morphemes -mma, -ss, and -mm in Amharic have been ascribed a function as topic markers (cf. Blejer 1986, Gasser 1983, Hetzron 1973, Kapeliuk 1978, Leslau 1995, etc.).
Girma A Demeke, Ronny Meyer
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Topic and topicality in text

Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 2012
In this study, topic and topicality are explored through the application of a model of analysis to a bilingual sample of English and Spanish written narrative texts in equivalent genres. A Core Annotation Scheme and an Extended Annotation Scheme were designed to search for and test ‘aboutness’ topics, frame setting topics, and the information status ...
Raquel Hidalgo, Angela Downing
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Research into the topic's representation in topic tracking

2010 Seventh International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, 2010
This paper uses Vector Space Model to represent topic, and focuses on the creation of the model. Based on the analysis of the characteristics of the English news stories, the paper proposed two methods to improve the topic's representation. Firstly, we propose a news story-oriented feature extraction algorithm based on the combination of word analysis ...
Hua Zhao, Fengling Wang
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