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Prosodic Correlates of Rhetorical Relations [PDF]
Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2006 Workshop on Analyzing Conversations in Text and Speech - ACTS '09, 2006 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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Rhetorical relations for information retrieval [PDF]
Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, 2012 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]
, 2021 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.
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Generic and rhetorical structures of texts : two sides of the same coin? [PDF]
, 2005 Two major approaches to textual macro-structures have been developed during the last decades: Register & Genre Theory (R>) and Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST).
Gruber, Helmut, Muntigl, Peter
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Mapping Different Rhetorical Relation Annotations: A Proposal [PDF]
Proceedings of the Fourth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2015 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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Algorithms for Analysing the Temporal Structure of Discourse [PDF]
, 1995 We describe a method for analysing the temporal structure of a discourse which takes into account the effects of tense, aspect, temporal adverbials and rhetorical structure and which minimises unnecessary ambiguity in the temporal structure.
Grover, Claire +2 more
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Rhetorical structure and reader manipulation in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express [PDF]
, 2009 This paper describes Agatha Christie’s use of rhetoric to convince readers of the ‘truth’ of her detective’s solution in The Murder on the Orient Express, and uses an adaptation of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) designed for analyses of long extracts ...
Alexander, M.
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Better Document-level Sentiment Analysis from RST Discourse Parsing [PDF]
, 2015 Discourse structure is the hidden link between surface features and document-level properties, such as sentiment polarity. We show that the discourse analyses produced by Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) parsers can improve document-level sentiment ...
Bhatia, Parminder +2 more
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Deriving rhetorical complexity data from the RST-DT Corpus [PDF]
, 2008 This paper describes a study of the levels at which different rhetorical relations occur in rhetorical structure trees. In a previous empirical study (Williams and Reiter, 2003) of the RST-DT (Rhetorical Structure Theory Discourse Treebank) Corpus ...
Power, Richard, Williams, Sandra
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Being in Common: In Celebration of Ronald W. Greene\u27s Woolbert Award [PDF]
, 2015 Dr. Kristin Swenson\u27s contribution to Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Volume 12, Issue 4 ...
Swenson, Kristin A.
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