In conclusion, we should like to add two admonitions. First, criticism is an art, not the raw tables or summaries of scholarship. The scholarship is a necessary prerequisite, and the formal reports, the compilations of the learned monograph, are essential to criticism. We have too much of unimaginative word counting, the pedestrian assemblage of arguments, the methodical and generalized comment...

Research on Question Answering is focused mainly on classifying the question type and finding the answer, while presenting the answer in a way that suits the user’s needs has received little attention. This paper shows how existing question answering systems can be improved by exploiting Rhetorical Structure Theory-based summarization techniques in order to extract more than just the exact answ...

Abstract The rhetorical question, often assumed to have been favoured by the sophist Gorgias, became a fundamental feature of ancient rhetoric in both Greek and Latin. By time Senecan tragedy, an accumulation as many seventeen serial questions can be found expressing extremes emotion, especially indignation or despair. Rhetorical some archaic classical authors received limited attention, for ex...

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...

Finding answers to why-questions involves finding arguments in texts, rather than the noun phrases that are typical targets for factoid questions. Detecting arguments requires detecting specific rhetorical structures and relations. Therefore, we proposed the use of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) as a tool for discovering answer to why-questions in paragraphs that are likely to contain the an...

Finding answers to why-questions involves finding arguments in texts, rather than the noun phrases that are typical targets for factoid questions. Detecting arguments requires detecting specific rhetorical structures and relations. Therefore, we proposed the use of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) as a tool for discovering answer to why-questions in paragraphs that are likely to contain the an...

Causal networks have been successfully used to explain the process of narrative comprehension in humans (Trabasso et al., 1989). This motivated their use in the automatic creation of fairy tales (Swartjes and Theune, 2006; Theune et al., 2007). Some have suggested that causal relations also play an important role in improving narrative generation from real-life temporal data (Hunter et al., 201...

This article deals with the question of diglossic code-switching in Arabic spoken language and especially learned discourses. I aim to explain rhetorical inherent value will attempt show through a series examples drawn from an Aljazeera episode, how juxtaposition standard colloquial can be vehicle for messages that bear / metaphorical values.

searching the reasons for the superiority of one text over another with the same theme and the same subject has long been a vital question up on the minds of literary critics. dealing with these types of texts, this critical question has always been outstanding in the mind of serious literary critics that why the narration of one author is more cohesive than the other's. so analyzing the s...

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 ...