The paper considers our ordinary mentalistic discourse in relation to what we should expect from any genuine science of the mind. A meta-scientific eliminativism is commended and distinguished from the more familiar eliminativism of Skinner and the Churchlands. Meta-scientific eliminativism views folk psychology qua folksy as unsuited to offer insight into the structure of cognition, although i...

the fundamental role of discourse and its positive and negative effects in personal and social interactions is known to everyone. this is why religions and denominations have always relied on discourse, especially when it is beyond the boundaries of personal concerns and by the expansion of its domain, have stressed on the vital position and particular role of discourse in the fate of humanity....

As it is known, on the political scene the success of a speech can be measured by the degree in which the speaker is able to change attitudes, opinions, feelings and political beliefs in his auditorium. We suggest a range of analysis tools, all belonging to semiotics, from lexical-semantic, to syntactical and rhetorical, that integrated in the exploratory panoply of discursive weapons of a poli...

Anaphora and coreference resolution is a well-studied topic in NLP research, allowing a deeper understanding of the text than shallow methods by revealing discourse structures. Traditional systems reason over mentions, rather than entities, and perform clustering after the resolution process. In this work, general drawbacks with this approach are considered and related works employing knowledge...

Efficient music information retrieval (MIR) require to have meta information about music along with content based information in the knowledge base. Discussion forums on music are rich sources of information gathered from a wider audience. Taking into consideration the nature of text in these web resources, the yield of relation extraction is quite dependent on resolving the entity references i...

The English lexical item why can be used metacommunicatively in response to a previous question act. In these cases, its meaning is similar “Why are you (the original questioner) asking me addressee) that question?” This also true of why’s counterparts range other languages. We demonstrate how metacommunicative, or meta, use and different from the paraphrase above, proposing modal-driven ontolo...

The problem of classifying text with respect to belonging to a document or a meta-document is formulated and its application areas are proposed. An algorithm is proposed for document classification tasks where counts of words is insufficient do differentiate between such abstract classes of text as metalanguage and object-level. We extend the parse tree kernel method from the level of individua...

Knowledge about he discourse-level structure of a scientific article isuseful for flexible and sub-domain independent automatic abstraction. We are interested in the automatic identification of content units ("argumentative entities") in the source text, such as GOAL OR PROBLEM STATEMENT, CONCLUSIONS and RESULTS. In this paper, we present an extension fKupiec et al.’s methodology fortrainable s...