barghawatah were from among the religious suffriya berbers, who, relying on the simple-mindedness of the tribes and their dissatisfaction with the political situation established a state in far maghrib in the first half of 2nd/8th century by propagating an eclectic doctrinal tenet and claiming mahdi and continued until mid-5th/9th century. strategies of doctrinal discourses of barghawatah’s sta...

An important factor of argument mining in dialog or multilog data is the framing with which interlocutors put forth their arguments. By using rhetorical devices such as hedging or reference to the Common Ground, speakers relate themselves to their interlocutors, their arguments, and the ongoing discourse. Capitalizing on theoretical linguistic insights into the semantics and pragmatics of disco...

With advances in robotics, robots can give advice and help using natural language. The field of HRI, however, has not yet developed a communication strategy for giving advice effectively. Drawing on literature in politeness and informal speech, we propose options for a robot’s help-giving speech— using hedges or discourse markers, both of which can mitigate the commanding tone implied in direct...

The view of language as action is wellentrenched in computational theories of discourse, however previous work has not paid particular attention to the fact that agents' resource bounds must a ect the way that dialogue proceeds just as it a ects agents' behavior in general. This paper presents results on the role of discourse strategies in improving performance on collaborative tasks when agent...

It is sometimes claimed (cf. that discourse has a tree structure which reeects the semantic structure of discourse. In this paper, I argue that this claim is problematic in cases of discourse multiple dependencies i.e. cases where one discourse segment is semantically related to two discourse segments. I develop a discourse framework which is based on Scha/Polanyi 1988] but integrates ideas fro...