We present a revised discourse theory based on segmented discourse representation theory and provide a method for building a Japanese corpus suitable for causal relation extraction. This extends and refines the framework proposed in Kaneko and Bekki (2014), and we evaluate our corpus and compare it with that work.

Several decades after formally attaining independence, many developing countries continue to trade disproportionately with the European countries that once ruled them. Earlier attempts to examine this phenomenon have relied on inappropriate statistical techniques. After reviewing the existing literature, this paper draws on insights from economic history as well as the theory of industrial orga...

For the past decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have emphasized the use of HIV/AIDS prevention models that explicitly incorporate theoretically-grounded, behavior modification models to establish its funding priorities for the US and its territories. This essay argues that this emphasis on behavior modification models raises a unique set of concerns for those conducting HIV/...

Available evidence has shown that pre-colonial African societies had a formal and organized system of government before the advent of colonialism. However, there seem to be an intellectual conspiracy against the minor ethnic groups as most of the contemporary literature has focused on the three major ethnic groups-Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba and the Igbo political systems. In order to save these minor...

This paper uses classical logic for a simultaneous description of the syntax and semantics of a fragment of English and it is argued that such an approach to natural language allows procedural aspects of linguistic theory to get a purely declarative formulation. In particular, it will be shown how certain construction rules in Discourse Representation Theory, such as the rule that indefinites c...

“Yoneko’s Earthquake” is a masterpiece among the short stories by Japanese American writer Hisaye Yamamoto, and it reflects plight tragedy of women. The plot story seemingly simple but profound, especially design underlying text, which full ingenuity. From perspective postcolonial ecocriticism, Yamamoto’s complicity colonialism ecologism in many aspects. Take close look at natural images (the d...

The politics of change are both played out within the arena of discourse and dedicated to transforming that arena. In this article, we bring together critical discourse theory and political process theory in order to highlight the ways in which a process of discourse transformation can be deployed by organisations to effect political and economic change. In the process we examine the discursive...

Most of the anaphoric resolution algorithms developed so far focus on anaphors with NP antecedents, be it inter-sentential or intrasentential. The main focus of this paper is to resolve various other types of anaphors such as discourse deictic anaphors found in computermediated tutorial dialogues on physics. We do this first through a corpus-based study of physics tutoring dialogues. Our approa...