Argumentative Strategies in French Company Brochures

Argumentative analysis of the ACL Anthology (Analyse argumentative du corpus de l'ACL (ACL Anthology)) [in French]

This paper presents an application of Text Zoning to the ACL Anthology. Text Zoning is known to be useful to characterize the content of papers, especially in the scientific domain. We show that recent techniques based on weakly supervised learning obtain excellent results on the ACL Anthology. Although these kinds of techniques is known in the domain, it is the first time it is applied to the ...

Rhetorical strategies in German argumentative dialogs

An important factor of argument mining in dialog or multilog data is the framing with which interlocutors put forth their arguments. By using rhetorical devices such as hedging or reference to the Common Ground, speakers relate themselves to their interlocutors, their arguments, and the ongoing discourse. Capitalizing on theoretical linguistic insights into the semantics and pragmatics of disco...

Forms & Brochures

Forms & Brochures

Ergonomics contributions to company strategies.

Managers usually associate ergonomics with occupational health and safety and related legislation, not with business performance. In many companies, these decision makers seem not to be positively motivated to apply ergonomics for reasons of improving health and safety. In order to strengthen the position of ergonomics and ergonomists in the business and management world, we discuss company str...