INTRODUCTION Understanding how academic dominant discourse is implicated in the shaping of nursing identity, professional aspirations and socialization of nursing students is useful as it can lead to strategies that promote nursing profession. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a qualitative research conducted through discourse analysis approach. Semi-structured interviews, focus group, and direct...

This paper presents the review and evaluation of DiZer – an automatic discourse analyzer for Brazilian Portuguese. Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory, DiZer is a symbolic analyzer that makes use of linguistic patterns learned from a corpus of scientific texts to identify and build the discourse structure of texts. DiZer evaluation shows satisfactory results for scientific texts. In order to t...

Understanding the structure of scientific discourse is of paramount importance for the development of appropriate Natural Language Processing tools able to extract and summarize information from research articles. In this paper we present an annotated corpus of scientific discourse in the domain of Computer Graphics. We describe the way we built our corpus by designing an annotation schema and ...

BACKGROUND The vascular hypothesis of multiple sclerosis (MS), called chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI), and its treatment (known as liberation therapy) was immediately rejected by experts but enthusiastically gripped by patients who shared their experiences with other patients worldwide by use of social media, such as patient online forums. Contradictions between scientific in...

This paper presents a three-way perspective on the annotation of discourse in scientific literature. We use three different schemes, each of which focusses on different aspects of discourse in scientific articles, to annotate a corpus of three full-text papers, and compare the results. One scheme seeks to identify the core components of scientific investigations at the sentence level, a second ...

Stylistic analysis and rhetorical theory are used in this study to inform our understanding of impediments to the successful uptake of a new medical idea. Through examination of the work of the Victorian surgeon Joseph Lister, who was described by one biographer as suffering from "stylistic ham-handedness", the study provides insights into the difficulty that Lister had in explaining his theory...

We develop methods for describing users based on their posts to an online discussion forum. These methods build on existing techniques to describe other aspects of online discussions communities, but the application of these techniques to describing users is novel. We demonstrate the utility of our proposed methods by showing that they are superior to existing methods over a post-level classifi...