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English Language MOOCs (LMOOCs) employ multimodal resources to enhance second language learners’ engagement and motivation. This study examined the multimodal instructional discourse in English LMOOCs in a Chinese MOOC platform, focusing on the ...
Yuting Zheng +2 more
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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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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.
Christina Lioma +2 more
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This paper presents results from a quantitative research that studied hypertextual scientific popularization texts published in Brazilian press. We start from the hyperlink and investigate the rhetorical relation that emerges between the text of origin ...
Maria Eduarda Giering
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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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Mapping Different Rhetorical Relation Annotations: A Proposal [PDF]
Annotation efforts have resulted in the availability of a number of corpora with rhetorical relation information. The corpora, unfortunately, are annotated under different theoretical approaches and have different hierarchie of relations. In addition, new sets of rhetorical relations have been proposed to accounfor language variation.
Benamara, Farah, Taboada, Maite
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This study presents our research on the potential of using rhetorical relations and superfi cial marks evidencing them to discriminate among specialized texts of different domains but with a high specialization level, in two very different languages as ...
Mikel Iruskieta, Iria da Cunha
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CAST: A Cross-Article Structure Theory for Multi-Article Summarization
Over the last decade, discourse relations, also referred to as rhetorical or coherence relations, have been used to improve a range of natural language processing applications.
Nouf Ibrahim Altmami +1 more
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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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Expression of purpose rhetorical relation in formal speeches and oral interviews
Besides the explicit content conveyed by the clausesof a text, there are implicit propositions called relational propositions (also labeled as rhetorical relations), which arise from the combination of parts of the text. According to Rhetorical Structure
Juliano Desiderato Antonio
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