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Online Suicide Identification in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST). [PDF]
Background: Suicide is a serious social problem. Substantial efforts have been made to prevent suicide for many decades. The internet has become an important arena for suicide prevention and intervention. However, to the best of our knowledge, only one study has analyzed suicidal comments online from the perspective of rhetorical structure with ...
Liu X, Liu X.
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Measuring discourse coherence in anomic aphasia using Rhetorical Structure Theory. [PDF]
Purpose: The existing body of work regarding discourse coherence in aphasia has provided mixed results, leaving the question of coherence being impaired or intact as a result of brain injury unanswered. In this study, discourse coherence in non-brain-damaged (NBD) speakers and speakers with anomic aphasia was investigated quantitatively and ...
Kong AP, Linnik A, Law SP, Shum WW.
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Ultrasound reports standardisation using rhetorical structure theory and domain ontology [PDF]
Ultrasound reporting plays an important role in diagnosis as images produced during an ultrasound examination do not give the whole view of the medical conditions.
Bärenfänger +20 more
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A Discourse Search Engine Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory [PDF]
Representing a document as a bag-of-words and using keywords to retrieve relevant documents have seen a great success in large scale information retrieval systems such as Web search engines. Bag-of-words representation is computationally efficient and with proper term weighting and document ranking methods can perform surprisingly well for a simple ...
Aizawa, Kiyoharu +4 more
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Rhetorical Structure and Reader Manipulation in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express [PDF]
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
Marc Alexander
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Two Practical Rhetorical Structure Theory Parsers [PDF]
We describe the design, development, and API for two discourse parsers for Rhetorical Structure Theory. The two parsers use the same underlying framework, but one uses features that rely on dependency syntax, produced by a fast shift-reduce parser, whereas the other uses a richer feature space, including both constituent- and dependency-syntax and ...
Mihai Surdeanu +2 more
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Fast Rhetorical Structure Theory Discourse Parsing
In recent years, There has been a variety of research on discourse parsing, particularly RST discourse parsing. Most of the recent work on RST parsing has focused on implementing new types of features or learning algorithms in order to improve accuracy ...
Heilman, Michael, Sagae, Kenji
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Query-Based Summarization using Rhetorical Structure Theory [PDF]
Research on Question Answering is focused mainly on classifying the question type and finding the answer. Presenting the answer in a way that suits the user’s needs has received little attention. This paper shows how existing question answering systems—
Bosma, W.E.
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Didactic Networks: A Proposal for e-learning Content Generation [PDF]
The Didactic Networks proposed in this paper are based on previous publications in the field of the RSR (Rhetorical-Semantic Relations). The RSR is a set of primitive relations used for building a specific kind of semantic networks for artificial ...
F. Javier Del Alamo +2 more
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Abstract : Rhetorical Structure Theory is a theory of text organization which provides a framework for an analysis of text. The theory is based on the understanding that a text is not merely a string of clauses, but consists instead of hierarchically organized groups of clauses that stand in various relations to one another.
Sandra A. Thompson, William C. Mann
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