This paper presents DiZer, an automatic DIscourse analyZER for Brazilian Portuguese. Given a source text, the system automatically produces its corresponding rhetorical analysis, following Rhetorical Structure Theory – RST (Mann and Thompson, 1987). A rhetorical repository, which is DiZer main component, makes the automatic analysis possible. This repository, produced by means of a corpus analy...

Overloaded and disinterested consumers have become skillful at screening out ads. In response, advertisers employ and combine various strategies, with two major ones being (a) rhetorical figures (e.g., rhyme, puns) and (b) message repetition. Though each has received substantial research attention and is crucial to advertising theory, they have not been examined simultaneously. We conducted a m...

We show that surface-level markers of pragmatic intent can be used to recognize the important sentences in text and can thereby improve the performance of text summarization systems. In particular, we focus on using automated detection of rhetorical figures—characteristic syntactic patterns of persuasive language—to provide information for an additional metric to enhance the performance of the ...

We describe our experience in developing a discourse-annotated corpus for community-wide use. Working in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory, we were able to create a large annotated resource with very high consistency, using a well-defined methodology and protocol. This resource is made publicly available through the Linguistic Data Consortium to enable researchers to develop empirica...

The translation of political speeches is crucial in today's globalized world, where leaders communicate with audiences different languages and cultures. Reproducing expressive devices particularly important as it significantly affects the understanding interpretation message. This study aims to identify peculiarities reproducing means translation, including metaphors, allegories, antitheses, ot...

This paper offers a semantic theory of uses of now in which now refers to a time introduced in discourse. I argue that the interpretation of an anaphoric use of now is determined by the rhetorical structure of the discourse in which the token of now figures.

Although Error Analysis (EA) has been broadly used in Foreign Language and Mother Tongue learning contexts, it not applied the field of engineering by STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) students a systematic way. In this interdisciplinary pilot study, we EA methodology to wide corpus exercises essays written third-year mechanical engineering, with main purpose achieving precis...

generation is, like Machine Translation, one of the ultimate goal of Natural Language Processing. However, since conventional word–frequency– based abstract generation systems(e.g. [Kuhn 58]) are lacking in inter-sentential or discourse-structural analysis, they are liable to generate incoherent abstracts. On the other hand, conventional knowledge or script–based abstract generation systems(e.g...

Discourse markers are complex discontinuous linguistic expressions which are used to explicitly signal the discourse structure of a text. This paper describes efforts to improve an automatic tagging system which identifies and classifies discourse markers in Chinese texts by applying machine learning (ML) to the disambiguation of discourse markers, as an integral part of automatic text summariz...

abstract although flourishing research has been devoted to research on article abstracts, more studies are needed to unpack the relationship between rhetorical moves and their associated linguistic and rhetorical features (e.g., metadiscourse). to underpin this relationship, the current study analyzed a total of 60 research article abstracts written in english by two cultural groups in three di...