Human and automatic annotation of discourse relations for Arabic [PDF]
This thesis describes the first, inter-disciplinary, study on human and automatic discourse annotation for explicit discourse connectives in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
Alsaif, Amal
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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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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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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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Comparative Analysis of Reasoning in Russian Classic Poetry
The paper considers the pragmatic textual level and focuses on peculiarities of reasoning realized in the lyric verses written by the representatives of Russian classic poetry. The investigated material of poetic texts includes the verses written by A.K.
Mariya Timofeeva
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Rhetorical relations and textual-discourse functions in clause combining in Brazilian Portuguese
In this paper I discuss the rhetorical relations established in two contexts of occurrence of adverbial clauses and appositive relative clauses, as follows: the clauses may be realized either in their canonical form or apart from the main clause, as ...
Maria Beatriz Nascimento Decat
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This article presents a study of adverbial clauses introduced by the connector quando (when) in printed news articles in Brazilian Portuguese. The aim is to investigate the role of these clauses in the emergency of rhetorical relations.
Gustavo Ximenes Cunha
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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 of contrast in the blog text: marking means, semantics, functions
The article analyzes the rhetorical structures with the contrast semantics and their functions in the blog text, special attention is paid to the contrast relations at the nexus of the blogger’s message and the readers’ reactive commentaries, connection ...
Inna Victorovna Kovtunenko
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This article focuses on how EURORDIS-Rare Diseases Europe uses e-Public Relations to communicate and construct and strengthen relations with key publics, concretely the patients/members and journalists.
Célia Belim
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