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Quantitative view on the arabic text structure
Milička, Jiří ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Petkevič, Vladimír (referee)
The thesis suggests several general quantitative linguistic falsifiable hypotheses and tests them on corpora of standard modern Arabic, medieval Arabic and some European languages, including Czech and English. The hypotheses deal with structures built by word lengths and word frequencies within sentences and supra-sentential elements, with connection between sentence length - its constiuents frequency relation and Menzerath-Altmann Law, and with a view on text via so-called combinatorial mapping.
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The Theory of Communication as an Explanatory Principle for the Natural Multilevel Text Segmentation
Milička, Jiří ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Cvrček, Václav (referee) ; Altmann, Gabriel (referee)
1. Phonemes, words, clauses and sentences are not a logical necessity of language, unlike distinctive features and morphemes. 2. Despite this, such nested segmentation is very firmly present in languages and in our concepts of language description, 3. because nested segmentation and inserting redundancy on multiple levels is an efficient way to get the language signal through the burst-noise channel. 4. There are various strategies how redundancy can be added and what kind of redundancy can be added. 5. The segment delimiter is expressed by some additional information and the amount of delimiting information is independent from the length of the seg- ment it delimits. This principle can serve as a basis for a successful model for the Menzerath's relation.
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The ability of some Czech prepositions to follow their complement
Jiřička, Lukáš ; Milička, Jiří (advisor) ; Kováříková, Dominika (referee)
This bachelor thesis aims to provide initial insights into the phenomenon of Czech ambipositions, as the possibility of their existence tends to be overlooked, if not downright rejected. The early chapters introduce the traditional line of thought standardly applied in the analysis of Czech and provide commentary and authentic corpus-sourced examples (from SYN2020) to argue against it. In the following chapters, an attempt to create a tentative list of Czech ambipositions is made, alongside some initial observations and simple corpus studies. This way, several aspects, such as the possible motivation of speakers to postpose these ambipositions, the productivity of this way of using the adpositions or the impact of genre or source language, are examined briefly, before the thesis moves on to suggest some possible ways of studying the subject matter further.
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Characteristic of Specific Fantasy Books Characters with Reference to Autosemantics
Volfová, Daniela ; Milička, Jiří (advisor) ; Čech, Radek (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the fresh field of gender linguistics. Within its framework we examine the existence and manifestation of gender in fiction. The paper maps the current state of literature production and ratio of men and women in this field, it describes the development of the concept of gender, recalls the most importat studies of gender linguistics. The obtained bases are compared with the results of our own quantitative study of genderlect and the characteristic of characters with regard to gender in a hundred fantastic stories. Key words characteristics, gender, genderlect, gender linguistics, author, male, female, character, quantitative analysis, semantic category, autosemantics, part of speech
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Characteristic of Specific Fantasy Books Characters with Reference to Autosemantics
Volfová, Daniela ; Milička, Jiří (advisor) ; Čech, Radek (referee)
This thesis sets a goal to quantify the differences based on the author's gender (or at least to try and to describe them better) in a production of a beletry, especially with regard to the differences in the vocabulary they use and the specific words they select. It also focuses on the richness of the lexicon when describing a character. For this the thesis uses a corpus analysis of every author's approach to describe a character and it tries to find patterns in both male and female perspective. All this from a selected antology called "Klenoty české fantasy". In the analysis, we are mainly going to focus on the autosemantics used as subjects, objects, atributes and predicates, that concern the characters.
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Authorship Attribution of Poetic Texts
Plecháč, Petr ; Cvrček, Václav (advisor) ; Milička, Jiří (referee) ; Mačutek, Ján (referee)
Title: Authorship Attribution of Poetic Texts Author: Mgr. Petr Plecháč, Ph.D. Department: Institute of Czech National Corpus Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Václav Cvrček, Ph.D. ABSTRACT Contemporary stylometry offers a number of methods for authorship recognition of po- etic texts based on a variety of textual features (e.g. word frequencies, frequencies of character n-grams). However, it seems that one important aspect of these texts has been rather left aside - this aspect is versification. The thesis uses four corpora of poetic texts (Czech, German, Spanish, and English) in order to analyze to what extent versification features - such as frequencies of rhythmic patterns or frequencies of various types of rhymes - may be used as an indicator of authorship. We show that (1) versification-based models significantly outperform the random baseline, (2) in some cases versification- based models even outperform the traditionally used lexical models, (3) in most of the cases combination of both types of models outperforms the given models alone. Versifi- cation features are consequently employed for the purpose of attribution of two texts of doubted authorship: (1) the versified play The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eigth which was originally published under the name of William Shakespeare, but where...
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The Theory of Communication as an Explanatory Principle for the Natural Multilevel Text Segmentation
Milička, Jiří ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Cvrček, Václav (referee) ; Altmann, Gabriel (referee)
1. Phonemes, words, clauses and sentences are not a logical necessity of language, unlike distinctive features and morphemes. 2. Despite this, such nested segmentation is very firmly present in languages and in our concepts of language description, 3. because nested segmentation and inserting redundancy on multiple levels is an efficient way to get the language signal through the burst-noise channel. 4. There are various strategies how redundancy can be added and what kind of redundancy can be added. 5. The segment delimiter is expressed by some additional information and the amount of delimiting information is independent from the length of the seg- ment it delimits. This principle can serve as a basis for a successful model for the Menzerath's relation.
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Quantitative view on the arabic text structure
Milička, Jiří ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Petkevič, Vladimír (referee)
The thesis suggests several general quantitative linguistic falsifiable hypotheses and tests them on corpora of standard modern Arabic, medieval Arabic and some European languages, including Czech and English. The hypotheses deal with structures built by word lengths and word frequencies within sentences and supra-sentential elements, with connection between sentence length - its constiuents frequency relation and Menzerath-Altmann Law, and with a view on text via so-called combinatorial mapping.
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