At present, discourse parsing is an important research topic. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) is one of the most popular approaches in this field. In general, discourse parsing includes three stages: discourse segmentation, discourse relations detection and building up rhetorical trees. Different strategies are used when developing discourse parsers. One of the strategies to detect discourse ...

Mammals, and humans in particular, are endowed with an exceptional capacity for cumulative learning. This capacity crucially depends on the presence of intrinsic motivations, i.e. motivations that are not directly related to an organism’s survival and reproduction but rather to its ability to learn. Recently, there have been a number of attempts to model and reproduce intrinsic motivations in a...

Discourse relation may entail sentiment information. In this work, we annotate both discourse relation and sentiment information on a moderate-sized Chinese corpus extracted from the ClueWeb09. Based on the annotation, we investigate the association between the relation type and the sentiment polarity in Chinese and interpret the data from various aspects. Finally, we highlight some language ph...

In this paper, we describe an annotation environment developed for the marking of discourse structures in Turkish, and the kinds of discourse relation configurations that led to its design.

Throughout the watershed modeling process, modelers, collaborators, and stakeholders make decisions about how to study various challenges that impact watersheds. To understand these decisions, we investigated values held by modelers who have worked or collaborated on projects within Chesapeake Bay Watershed their influence made during process. Using a mixed-methodological approach, designed an ...

Abstract This article explores impact investing within the renewable energy sector. Drawing on ethical decision making and sensemaking, this contributes to an enhanced understanding of complex sensemaking process investors when facing plausible situations in a world contested truths. Addressing tensions faced by with mixed motives, study investigates way makers use context-specific reasons make...

This paper looks at secondary teachers’ discourse about Madrid's Bilingual Programme (Spain). is a large education plan whereby some content subjects are taught in foreign language –mainly English– following Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) whose characteristics ubiquity have had an impact on daily lives professional career. By drawing both Grounded Theory Positioning as analytic...

as narrative discourses and discursive thematic frame- works on social issues in media can provide us with an insight into how different understandings and perspectives serve to construct dif- ferent presentations of social actors, social events as well as social re- lations and conflicts, it seems necessary to take them into more seri- ous considerations. to this end, the present study was an ...

Elementary Classes Motivations and Directions John T. Baldwin Why AEC? Categoricity and Complex Exponentiation Excellence– Generalized Amalgamation Eventual Categoricity Core Mathematics again Abstract Elementary Classes Motivations and Directions

the main objectives of a profitable organization are its survival, excellence and finally its prosperity. the organizational prosperity depends on performance based on dimensions called abilities and motivations of the organizations. therefore, the organizations need to have contingency integration between those two dimensions. in the past two decades, we have seen different views and models de...