Browsing by Subject "text"

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A study on the role of non-hyperlink text on web navigation
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2012) Karanam, Saraschandra; Oostendorp, Herre van; Indurkhya, Bipin
Cognitive models of web navigation have been used for evaluating websites and predicting user navigation behavior. Currently they predict the correct hyperlink by using information from the hyperlink text alone and ignore all other textual information on a webpage. The validity of this assumption is examined by investigating the role of non-hyperlink text on user navigation behavior. In the first experiment, we created two versions of a website by removing the non-hyperlink text from it. We found that there was no significant effect of non-hyperlink text on the user navigation behavior. Participants were equally accurate, selected the same set of pages to visit and spent the same amount of time on that common set with or without non-hyperlink text. This result validates the assumptions of those models of user-navigation behavior that consider information from the hyperlink text only. However, in a follow-up experiment, we included high-relevance and low-relevance pictures on the website, and repeated the experiment with and without non-hyperlink text. We found that participants were more accurate in the presence of non-hyperlink text than without it. This result suggests that the presence of pictures might prime the users to pay attention to non-hyperlink text, which increases the task accuracy.
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A terrible structuralist wisdom: how language affects the identity of an emigrant. Case study based on the autobiography »Lost in translation« by Eva Hoffman
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2013) Szepe, Agata
This essay is a case study about linguistic mechanisms that affect an emigrant's life. The research is based on the autobiography Lost in Translation by the Polish emigrant Eva Hoffman, analyzed with the use of theories of the structural linguistic school. According to the research, some linguistic rules influence her life very deeply. She communicates poorly because the expression of new language corresponds with different content from the native language, creating another form. Eva starts to treat daily communication like a written text, in the meaning used by Roland Barthes, which results in alienation. However, some linguistic principles such as the arbitrary nature of a sign or inseparability of signifiant and signifie do not affect her at all. She deepens her understanding of both her mother tongue and the new one by linguistic terms such as translation describing, defining and finding synonyms and tries to find her own identities using expressions such as I, you, here, near, and far, belonging to linguistic universals. Her identity is an identity-in-progress because she replaces her old home with a new center of the world. The old home remains a heterotopia while an emigrant changes her onceptions connected with the words here, there, near, and far.
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Ekstrakcja spójnych tekstów z Internetu na potrzeby algorytmów lingwistycznych
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2008) Dorosz, Krzysztof
Computer Linguistic is aimed to develop and improve text information extraction methods. Internet becomes a very extensive source of text, yet it is overloaded by thematically incoherent texts grouped by one presentation context (e.g. WWW page). This fact determines difficulties with usage of such texts as text corpuses for NLP processing (especially statistics based algorithms). Presented work is aimed to develop methods of extraction coherent texts from Web pages, that can improve quality of information extraction.