Categoricalness in Scientific Discourse

Relative complexity in scientific discourse

Variation and change in relativization strategies are well documented. Previous studies have looked at issues such as (a) relativizer choice with respect to the semantics of the antecedent and type of relative, (b) prescriptive traditions, (c) variation across text types and regional varieties, and (d) the role that relative clauses play in the organization of information within the noun phrase...

Argumentation Mining in Scientific Discourse

The dominant approach to argumentation mining has been to treat argumentation scheme detection as a machine learning problem based upon superficial text features, and to treat the relationships between arguments as support or attack. However, applications such as accurately representing and summarizing argumentation in scientific research articles require a deeper understanding of the text and ...

Modeling Scientific Discourse

We aim to build intelligent systems which can reason autonomously about the risk of carcinogenicity of chemicals, drawing on whatever theoretical or experimental evidence is available. In earlier work [14], reviewing the literature on methods of carcinogen risk assessment, we catalogued the different types of evidence adduced to support these claims, which may be in the form of: experimental re...

Preprint servers facilitate scientific discourse.

Preprints are scientificmanuscripts posted online before formal peer-review and publication in journals. Preprints have become prominent in scientific publishing, which is increasingly shaped by an emphasis on speed, transparency, and accessibility. Important as they are, those factors are entwined with the journal’s primary role as an arbiter of the rigor and significance of scientific scholar...

Discourse-Level Argumentation in Scientific Articles: Human and Automatic Annotation