COPTIC-SYRIAC RELATIONS BEYOND DOGMATIC RHETORIC

On Discourse Relations, Rhetorical Relations And Rhetoric

Discourses are the collaborative activities of (human) agents who have purposes for communicating. Discourse structure includes the purposes of those agents, which I take, following [GroszSid86], to be formally expressible as intentions and beliefs. While the theory of discourse structures has influenced how many computational linguists think about discourse processing, it does not preclude car...

Universal Health Coverage: Beyond rhetoric

Beyond Rhetoric to Poetics in IT Invention

Two kinds of discourse typically define scientific productions: logical (epistemology of science) and rhetorical (sociology of science). We suggest that research projects can also be analyzed as poetical productions. While rhetorical strategies anticipate controversies and deploy techniques to defend projects and findings, poetical practices deepen the cultural and symbolic dimensions of techno...

Partnership in health: beyond the rhetoric.

Computational Methods for Coptic

This paper motivates and details the first implementation of a freely available part of speech tag set and tagger for Coptic. Coptic is the last phase of the Egyptian language family and a descendant of the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt. Unlike classical Greek and Latin, few resources for digital and computational work have existed for ancient Egyptian language and literature until now. We evalu...