Rhetorical relations for information retrieval [PDF]
Typically, every part in most coherent text has some plausible reason for its presence, some function that it performs to the overall semantics of the text. Rhetorical relations, e.g. contrast, cause, explanation, describe how the parts of a text are linked to each other.
Lioma, Christina +2 more
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Rhetorical Entrapment in EU–Turkey Relations [PDF]
AbstractThis chapter describes and applies the rhetorical action approach to EU–Turkey relations. Generally, rhetorical entrapment denotes the mechanism by which actors are compelled to act in conformance with their prior argumentative commitments.
F. Schimmelfennig
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Russian blog texts are characterized by the fact that the respondent expresses opinions in order to convince the author of the effectiveness of certain ideas that cover his/her private life and professional activities.
Victor M. Shaklein, Inna V. Kovtunenko
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Prosodic Correlates of Rhetorical Relations [PDF]
This paper investigates the usefulness of prosodic features in classifying rhetorical relations between utterances in meeting recordings. Five rhetorical relations of contrast, elaboration, summary, question and cause are explored. Three training methods - supervised, unsupervised, and combined - are compared, and classification is carried out using ...
Murray, Gabriel +2 more
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ASPECTUAL INFLUENCE ON TEMPORAL RELATIONS: A CASE STUDY OF THE EXPERIENTIAL GUO IN MANDARINE [PDF]
This paper examines how the temporal relation between a clause containing the experiential guo and an adjacent clause is determined. Mandarin is a language not morphologically marked for tenses (e.g., Lin 2006), and therefore, tenses cannot help in ...
Jiun-Shiung Wu
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Rhetorical relations markers in Russian RST Treebank [PDF]
The paper deals with the pilot version of the first RST discourse treebank for Russian. The project started in 2016. At present, the tree-bank consists of sixty news texts annotated for rhetorical relations according to RST scheme.
Svetlana Toldova +7 more
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Expression of cause, evidence, justify and motivation rhetorical relations by causal hypotactic clauses in Brazilian Portuguese=Expressão das relações retóricas de causa, evidência, justificativa e motivação por meio de orações hipotáticas adverbiais causais no português brasileiro [PDF]
This paper aims at investigating the expression of cause, evidence, justify and motivation rhetorical relations by means of causal hypotactic clauses in formal oral discourse (university lectures and interviews with academic researchers) in Brazilian ...
Juliano Desiderato Antonio
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Exploiting Rhetorical Relations to Multiple Documents Text Summarization
Many of previous research have proven that the usage of rhetorical relations is capable to enhance many applications such as text summarization, question answering and natural language generation. This work proposes an approach that expands the benefit of rhetorical relations to address redundancy problem for cluster-based text summarization of ...
N. Adilah Hanin Zahri +3 more
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Exploiting Rhetorical Relations in Blog Summarization [PDF]
With the goal of developing an efficient query-based opinion summarization approach, we have targeted to resolve Question Irrelevancy and Discourse Incoherency problems which have been found to be the most frequently occurring problems for opinion summarization To address these problems, we have utilized rhetorical relations of texts with the help of ...
S. Mithun
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The Rhetorical Apposition: A Way to Integrate Simile and Metaphor [PDF]
Truth and image, beauty and ugliness, love and religion, etc. are interwoven in the word of Hafez. This is rooted in the compilation infrastructure of his word.
Behnoosh Rahimi Harsini, Ali Heidari
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