Pro or Contra? Persuasion in the Potsdam Commentary Corpus
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This short paper describes our ongoing work on representing the argument structure of a particular class of persuasive texts, and on reading experiments designed to investigate the effects of certain rhetorical devices, in particular the use of explicit argumentative connectives.
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