The beginning of the sentence serves to define the topic of the sentence; hence, this is the topic position.
"The one thing the Nobel committee does is define the topic of this epoch in the field of peace and security.
This study proposes to use neural networks for defining the topic boundaries in search engine transaction logs, and is a part of ongoing research on automatic new topic identification.
Men talk more often, they talk for longer periods, they adopt 'centering positions' (forcing females to hover around); men define the topic, assume the legitimacy of their own view, and override women who do not see the world in their terms.
It should define the topic, establish context, explain why the topic is notable, and summarize the most important points.'4 We focus on the lead section for two reasons.
The South African case, as well as the difficult issues left in the wake of other civil conflicts of the era, including the genocide in Rwanda and the wars in the former Yugoslavia, led political and legal thinkers to define the topic of transitional justice (see the entry on transitional justice).
According to Canas et al. (2003), for concept map construction, a standard process includes defining the topic for focus question, recognizing, and listing the most significant concepts that are linked with that topic, ordering the concepts from highest to lowest, and adding and tagging linking phrases.
The question is phrased vaguely, as all of these types of questions usually are, in a manner that does not properly define the topic.
When designing a DCE, the researchers must determine the study objectives,; the features (attributes) believed to define the topic of interest and decide what types of models will be used (figure 1).
