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...

Computationally modeling the evolution of science by tracking how scientific topics rise and fall over time has important implications for research funding and public policy. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying topic growth and decline. We investigate the role of rhetorical framing: whether the rhetorical role or function that authors ascribe to topics (as methods, as goals...

In this article we analyse autobiographical narrative texts written by university students studying Catalan as an Additional Language at a CEFR (2020) B1 level. The goal is to the formative needs related writing of genre in order foster metadiscursive reflection classroom that will allow improve their output. To end, analyzed corpus 39 autobiographies both macrotextual level (i.e., rhetorical m...

Research argues that the rhetorical dialogue theory (Yu.V. Rozhdestvensky) is a sound approach to analysis of corporate media. The first part research briefly outlines evolution media and dwells on communication technologies used in magazines for employees today. Digital have reinforced emotional impact produced by multimodality texts made narration which embodies various values more explicit. ...