In this paper we examine the issues that arise from the annotation of the discourse connectives for the Chinese Discourse Treebank Project. This project is based on the same principles as the PDTB, a project that annotates the English discourse connectives in the Penn Treebank. The paper begins by outlining range of discourse connectives under consideration in this project and examines the dist...

The aim of this study is to define the concept moral grandstanding and discuss its antecedents, motivations behind it, implications. Moral described as contributing discourse persuade others that one morally respectable. Individuals who value their standing are more concerned about own self than topics they claim discuss. Therefore, it likely individuals perform may be high on narcissistic pers...

critical pedagogy (cp), as a poststructuralist educational movement, challenges the asymmetrical, power-over nature of classroom discourse and seeks to accommodate multivocality in the classroom and in the society. this study probed the discourse architecture of efl classrooms in iran. specifically, it aimed to explore to what extent iranian efl classrooms have stepped away from the teacher-dom...

This paper describes our two discourse parsers (i.e., English discourse parser and Chinese discourse parser) for submission to CoNLL-2016 shared task on Shallow Discourse Parsing. For English discourse parser, we build two separate argument extractors for single sentence (SS) case, and adopt a convolutional neural network for Non-Explicit sense classification based on (Wang and Lan, 2015b)’s wo...

Without discourse connectives, classifying implicit discourse relations is a challenging task and a bottleneck for building a practical discourse parser. Previous research usually makes use of one kind of discourse framework such as PDTB or RST to improve the classification performance on discourse relations. Actually, under different discourse annotation frameworks, there exist multiple corpor...

Texts as well as dialogues originated a number of analysis at discourse level from various perspectives, such as: modelling of nominal, temporal or spatial reference resolution [1, 5], of rhetorical structure [6], argumentative structure, and of cooperative discourse structure [3]. So far, little has been done to formally represent the structure of instructional (also called procedural) texts, ...

In this paper, I demonstrate how Korean American camp counselors locally construct ethnic identity through the practice of self-categorization in discourse. Self-categorization, or identification oneself terms identity, serves to position ethnicity and associate that with one’s personal goals participating camp. Using videotaped data counselors’ meetings, show while debating their views on what...

adopting a discourse-pragmatic approach, this study examines the synchronic multifunctionality of the discourse marker hâlâ from the perspective of (inter)subjectification. the findings obtained from the synchronic corpus of colloquial persian indicates that hâlâ has proceeded along the (inter)subjectification cline identified by traugott and dasher (2002), der (2010), and degand and vandenberg...

Previous researches on Text-level discourse parsing mainly made use of constituency structure to parse the whole document into one discourse tree. In this paper, we present the limitations of constituency based discourse parsing and first propose to use dependency structure to directly represent the relations between elementary discourse units (EDUs). The state-of-the-art dependency parsing tec...