This paper argues for more precise deenitions of rhetorical relations that have often been proposed as intermediate forms between modules of text generators. As a case in point, we describe the problems we encountered when we combined two text generator systems that we initially thought were complementary: one dealt with \what to say?" and the other with the \how to say?". This experiment broug...

By definition, criticism involves the application of principles or values in order to make judgments for the purpose of bringing about positive change. Understandably, criticism comes in a variety of forms. For example, rhetorical criticism carefully examines and judges the quality of discourse. Our subject here is critical social science, which critiques basic social structure (Littlejohn, 199...

In this paper we propose an analysis of the metaphor "This surgeon is a butcher!” discussed in Grady, Oakley & Coulson 1999, introducing it into a mental space framework derived from blending theory and cognitive semiotics. We attempt to reconstruct the meaning of this metaphor, and hypothesize a general framework for analyzing metaphoric blends and other forms of expression that utilize blends...

Introduction This article focuses on a Natural Language Processing (NLP) approach for the analysis of citation functions in scientific papers. Bibliometric studies traditionally rely on citation metadata and count the number of times a publication has been cited. However, some recent studies rely also on full text processing on papers, e.g. (Boyack et al., 2013), (Bertin et al., 2013, 2014). Th...

Successful machine tutoring, like other forms of ~~mamnachine discourse, requires sophisticated communication skills and a deep understanding of the student’s knowledge. A system must have the ability to reason about a student’s knowledge and to assess the effect of the discourse on him. In this paper we describe Meno-tutor, a LISP program that deliberately Plans the rhetorical structure of its...

This tiiesis addresses a difficult problem in text processing: crealing a System lo automalically dérive rhetorical structures o f text. Allhough thè rhelorical structure lias proven to be useful in many fields o f text processing sucli as text summarisation and information extraction, Systems that auiomalically generate rhetorical structures with high accuracy are difficult to find. This is bc...

Effective models of social dialog must understand a broad range of rhetorical and figurative devices. Rhetorical questions (RQs) are a type of figurative language whose aim is to achieve a pragmatic goal, such as structuring an argument, being persuasive, emphasizing a point, or being ironic. While there are computational models for other forms of figurative language, rhetorical questions have ...

A question may be asked not only to elicit information, but also to make a statement. Questions serving the latter purpose, called rhetorical questions, are often lexically and syntactically indistinguishable from other types of questions. Still, it is desirable to be able to identify rhetorical questions, as it is relevant for many NLP tasks, including information extraction and text summariza...

The article analyzes the problem of rhetorical competence formation university students in process teaching Ukrainian for special purposes and proposes ways to solve it. Some aspects methodological system are proposed. Attention is focused on peculiarities students' conditions distance learning, particular use interactive forms methods which contribute linguistic personality future specialist. ...

Past research is not clear on the process by which rhetorical questions influence persuasion (i.e., increased focus on message arguments vs. on the persuasion agent). Based on recent theories of persuasion knowledge and rhetorical figures in advertising, our model delineates conditions under which rhetoricals are likely to enhance argument elaboration (low salience of the rhetorical) and those ...