In this paper we study the distribution of words across the different parts of a book using tools from information theory. In particular, the mutual information between words in the text and parts of the text is compared ...

Graph databases make use of logics that combine traditional first-order features with navigation on paths, in the same way logics for model checking do. However, modern applications of graph databases impose a new requirement ...

In this work we show that global topological properties of co-occurrent word networks constructed from texts, seem to be the fingerprint of meaningful sentences. We observe that many statistical properties of these networks ...

The automatic disambiguation of word senses (i.e., the identification of which of the meanings is used in a given context for a word that has multiple meanings) is essential for such applications as machine translation and ...

As is the case of many signals produced by complex systems, language presents a statistical structure that is balanced between order and disorder. Here we review and extend recent results from quantitative characterisations ...

Two studies examined the effects of specific reading styles on vocabulary learning of at-risk preschool Chilean children (aged 3-5 yrs.) during shared book reading. Study 1 examined the effect of explicit instruction of ...

Written language is a complex communication signal capable of conveying information encoded in the form of ordered sequences of words. Beyond the local order ruled by grammar, semantic and thematic structures affect ...

Abstract. The problem of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is about selecting the correct sense of an ambiguous word in a given context. However, even if the problem of WSD is difficult, when we consider its bilingual version, ...

El desarrollo de la lectura y su comprensión se vuelve compleja en ocasiones cuando se encuentra redactada de forma sofisticada o en un lenguaje técnico, causando al lector dificultad de comprensión del contenido. El ...