The study of argumentation has undergone periods of decadence alternate with periods of renaissance. Currently, we are witnessing one of the latter, as proved by research flowering in many issues and aspects, both in Philosophy and in Artificial Intelligence. The work presented in this thesis is concerned in particular with “rhetorical argumentation”, which on the other hand has enjoyed conside...

the islamic revolution helped develop a new discourse and semantic system. one of the methods to study or analyze the political phenomena is critical discourse analysis namely, that of laclau and mouffe›s discourse, the most pertinent. this article examines its main question whether the values of the islamic revolution concepts and identity are constructed, spread and articulated according to l...

The overall sentiment of a text is critically affected by its discourse structure. By splitting a text into text spans with different discourse relations, we automatically train the weights of different relations in accordance with their importance, and then make use of discourse structure knowledge to improve sentiment classification. In this paper, we utilize explicit connectives to predict d...

background considering the cognitive and linguistic complexity of discourse production, it is expected that individuals with traumatic brain injury (tbi) should face difficulties in this task. therefore, clinical examination of discourse has become a useful tool for studying and assessment of communication skills of people suffering from tbi. among different genres of discourse, persuasive disc...

The dramatic expansion of modern linguistic research and enhanced accuracy analysis have become a reality due to the ability artificial neural networks not only learn adapt, but also carry out automate analysis, select, modify compare texts various types genres. purpose this article journal issue as whole is present areas in computational linguistics complexology, well define solid rationale fo...

AIM The aim of the paper is (1) to offer an overview of different theoretical approaches to discourse analysis and (2) to review papers published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing from 1996-2004 in which discourse analysis is identified as a method of data analysis. BACKGROUND Discourse analysis offers rigorous approaches to analysing naturally occurring talk and texts. Forms of discourse an...

This paper develops a minimally supervised approach, based on focused distributional similarity methods and discourse connectives, for identifying of causality relations between events in context. While it has been shown that distributional similarity can help identifying causality, we observe that discourse connectives and the particular discourse relation they evoke in context provide additio...