In his letter to the editor, Dr Schräder poses the rhetorical question of whether the results of our study are ‘true’. To substantiate his doubts, he points out that different non-ionic contrast media (CM) were used in our study and calls for a subgroup analysis. In addition, he refers to the data obtained during the COURT trial. I am very happy to be given this opportunity to discuss the inter...

1. Introduction The Question Ontology Project aims at providing a philosophical analysis and categorization of questions. The categorization is based on criteria such as linguistic patterns, semantic representations, formal structures of questions, and so on. On this basis, we have devised ten taxonomies of questions. We aim at building a model such that each question (except rhetorical and iro...

A combination of established theories [1].[2].[3].[4] are applied in an attempt to improve the output from a system [5],[6] which automatically generates MCQ (Multiple Choice Question) test items from source documents. The literature observes that NLG (Natural Language Generation) system evaluation is non-trivial [7] and so the method is evaluated using a process suited to the featured domain [...

This essay treats Burawoy’s advocacy for public sociology as a social problems claim. Using a social constructionist approach, I examine the rhetorical strategies Burawoy uses to construct the discipline in a way that makes public sociology seem not only relevant, but integral to what sociologists do. Sociology’s history, ethos and practitioners are framed in ways that make its commitment to th...

exaggeration is a rhetoric picture which is often used to arrange the speech and to attract the audience. in exaggeration, the poet, shows his meanings by the use of two methods, to make the subject greater or smaller, and in fact he develops his speech by the use of these rhetorical devices and emphatics in order to make the meaning more understandable. most rhetoricians, as they introduce the...

With this analogy, I view rhetorical relations as realization of intentions. Furthermore, this analogy leads me to believe that rhetorical relations should be as numerous and varied as there are relations among actions and objects in the domain. This view seems to be in conflict with Dale's view (in this proceedings) which argues that rhetorical relation should only include textual relations ra...

this study was set to reveal how second language learners use rhetorical relations in their written narratives in terms of rhetorical structure theory (rst) primarily proposed by mann & thompson (1987) and developed by mann, matthiessen & thompson (1992). to this end, sixty written narratives based on the picture story book ‘frog, where are you?’ were collected from efl learners and wer...

abstract rhetorical structure is helpful in improving how the writers maintain cohesion in their writings. this study examines how the iraqi writers maintain cohesion in the text by analyzing the various rhetorical moves in azzaman, an online iraqi newspaper. to this purpose, twelve opinion articles from azzaman iraqi newspaper, published from january 2013 to june 2013 were analyzed. the findin...

In this paper we describe DISCUSS, a dialogue move taxonomy layered over semantic representations. We designed this scheme to enable development of computational models of tutorial dialogues and to provide an intermediate representation suitable for question and tutorial act generation. As such, DISCUSS captures semantic and pragmatic elements across four dimensions: Dialogue Act, Rhetorical Fo...

Introspection is a question-led process in which one builds on what one already knows to explore what is possible and plausible. In creative introspection, whether in art or in science, framing the right question is as important as finding the right answer. Presupposition-laden questions are themselves a source of knowledge, and in this paper we show how widely-held beliefs about the world can ...