Debating Uneven and Combined Development/Debating International Relations: A Forum

A Preliminary Study of Disputation Behavior in Online Debating Forum

In this paper, we propose a task for quality evaluation of disputing argument. In order to understand the disputation behavior, we propose three sub-tasks, detecting disagreement hierarchy, refutation method and argumentation strategy respectively. We first manually labeled a real dataset collected from an online debating forum. The dataset includes 45 disputing argument pairs. The annotation s...

Culture and International Relations : The Culture of International Relations

Debating Euthanasia in India: A Review of the Proceedings at the UNSECO Bioethics Forum, Manipal

This review is about the discussion that followed my presentation at the UNESCO Bioethics Forum, Manipal. To contextualise, I begin with a brief account of the legal status of euthanasia in India, and then summarize the main argument of my presentation if the moral objective of euthanasia is to end a patient's suffering by ending his or her life in the best possible way, then the form of euthan...

a contrastive study of rhetorical functions of citation in iranian and international elt scopus journals

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...

The Concept of Power in International Relations

The terms of Power, influence and authority could be heard in political world vastly, but using these terms is not leaving only to this realm. Despite its visual simplicity, generally there is not similar and equal perception about term of Power among people. Understanding about by politicians differs from lawyer perception about this term.  What people takes about Power, totally differ from wh...