Measures of topic continuity and the wa-topic in Japanese

Measures of topic continuity and the wa-topic in Japanese

In this paper I examine three statistical measures of topic continuity, i.e., Topic Quotient (TQ), Referential Distance (RD) and Topic Persistence (TP), using the text of a short novel, Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. It turns out that these measures are very unreliable as predictors of the WAtopi...

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Main Author: Andrej Bekeš
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2000-12-01
Series:Linguistica
Subjects:
topic
topic continuity
Topic Quotient
Referential Distance
Topic Persistence
coreference
Online Access:https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/6555

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