The so-called “conciliatory” norm in epistemology and meta-ethics requires that an agent, upon encountering peer disagreement with her judgment, lower confidence about judgment. But whether agents actually abide by this is unclear. Although excessively researched the empirical sciences, possible effects of on have been understudied. Here, we target lacuna, reporting a study measured moral belie...

due to the significance of multiculturalism in politics, and the central role linguistic devices play in organizing the political discourse, this text-based qualitative study was carried out to compare political interviews in the iranian and english contexts to find out the probable similarities and differences in the use of discourse markers (dms) between the two cultures. to this end, three s...

This paper presents a brief description of Explanation-Based Learning (EBL), and argues that it is an approach to machine learning with signi cant potential for use in discourse processing. More speci cally, EBL can be used by systems that model discourse generation as goaldriven behavior, and that model discourse interpretation as recognizing the speaker's discourse goals. As evidence, we desc...

While Buddhist teachings deny the presence of a stable, unchanging self, they must still make sense human agency. In this article, I look through metaphors mechanical men in literature, which inform us attempts to tackle problem by resorting figurative speech. With selection examples, we shall see not only basic rationale these metaphors, as well dynamics their usage texts against different doc...

Discourse relation classification is an important component for automatic discourse parsing and natural language understanding. The performance bottleneck of a discourse parser comes from implicit discourse relations, whose discourse connectives are not overtly present. Explicit discourse connectives can potentially be exploited to collect more training data to collect more data and boost the p...

We present an implementation of a discourse parsing system for a lexicalized TreeAjoining Grammar for discourse, specifying the integration of sentence and discourse level processing. Our system is based on the assumption that the compositional aspects of semantics at the discourse-level parallel those at the sentence-level. This coupling is achieved by factoring away inferential semantics and ...

In this paper, we describe how the LIDAS System (Linguistic Discourse Analysis System), a discourse parser built as an implementation of the Unified Linguistic Discourse Model (U-LDM) uses information from sentential syntax and semantics along with lexical semantic information to build the Open Right Discourse Parse Tree (DPT) that serves as a representation of the structure of the discourse (P...

In this paper, we develop a linguistic and conceptual analysis of argument coumpounds, i.e. groups of closely related arguments and their related contexts expressed by means of discourse relations. An implementation in Dislog is presented with an indicative evaluation of the results.

UK Abstract We describe a computational system which parses discourses consisting of sequences of simple sentences. These contain a range of temporal constructions, including time adverbials, progressive aspect and various aspectual classes. In particular, the grammar generates the required readings, according to the theoretical analysis of (Glasbey, forthcoming), for sentence-final 'then'. 1 S...