In the past few decades the use of increasingly large text corpora has grown rapidly in
language and linguistics research. This was enabled by remarkable strides in natural …

We report on a project investigating the linguistic properties of English scientific texts on the
basis of a corpus of journal articles from nine academic disciplines. The goal of the project is …

This paper proposes and describes a computational system for the automatic analysis of
thematic structure, as defined in Systemic Functional Linguistics, in written English. The …

Employing Halliday's (1994) Systemic Functional Grammar approach, the present study
examines the Korean EFL college students' way of organizing thematic structures in written …

Systemic functional linguistics (SFL) views language as human behaviour that takes place in
social contexts, as a means to achieve our social goals. SFL is thus an alternative to many …

Thematic theory, comprised of the concepts of theme, rheme, and thematic progression,
concerns itself with the interplay between word order, information status, propositional …

North, 2005). Despite the growing interest in the thematic selection, however, the systemic
functional approach is at an early stage of L2 research area. There is a clear need for …

A pesar de que la tarea de automatizar la anotación de varios tipos de información
grammatical, léxica y sintáctica se ha conseguido con un grado razonable de precisión en …