In this paper, we develop and evaluate several techniques for identifying argumentative paragraphs in Chinese editorials. We first use three methods of evaluation to score a paragraph’s argumentative nature: a relative word frequency approach; a method which targets known argumentative words in our corpus; and a combined approach which uses elements from the previous two. Then, we determine the...

Social networking services (SNS), such as Facebook, are an increasingly important platform for computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL). However, little is known about whether and how academic opinion change and argumentative knowledge construction (AKC) can be facilitated in SNS. Existing argumentation practice in informal SNS discussions typically lacks elaboration and argumentative q...

The long term goal of this research is to develop a program able to produce an automatic segmentation and categorization of textual sequences into discourse types. In this preliminary contribution, we present the construction of an algorithm which takes a segmented text as input and attempts to produce a categorization of sequences, such as narrative, argumentative, descriptive and so on. Also,...

Abstract The scope of Early Modern Demonology is universal, for the perceived threat devil omnipresent, stretching through time and space. This article examines various utilizations description central south American indigenous peoples in demonological discourse. By means three closely related examples, I will demonstrate discursive conflation deviant behavior Europe America comparisons transfe...