Rhetorical Structure and Reader Manipulation in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 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
Marc Alexander
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A Dependency Perspective on RST Discourse Parsing and Evaluation [PDF]
Computational Linguistics, 2018 Computational text-level discourse analysis mostly happens within Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), whose structures have classically been presented as constituency trees, and relies on data from the RST Discourse Treebank (RST-DT); as a result, the RST
Mathieu Morey +2 more
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Development of Human Sciences in Digitalization Age: A Linguistic Study in Context of Analyzing Ursula von der Leyen's Speech (2020) on Shaping Europe's Digital Future [PDF]
مجلة الدراسات الإنسانية والأدبية, 2023 Critical discourse analysis (CDA) represents one of the areas of increasing importance in various human fields as the fields of discourse analysis have recently included fields of literature, culture, politics and even health and education.
Fatma Tawakol Gaber El-Zaghal
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RST-based Discourse Coherence Quality Analysis Model for Students’ English Essays
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 Against the problems which can’t be solved by the word-level based local coherence analysis model, we propose a new discourse coherence quality analysis model (abbreviated RST-DCQA) by analyzing the full hierarchical discourse structure of English essays.
Huang Guimin +3 more
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Coherence Errors in Iranian EFL Learners' Writing: A Rhetorical Structure Theory Approach [PDF]
Journal of Language Horizons, 2017 One of the key elements in the organization of any piece of writing is its coherence. To date, many propositions have been given regarding the definition, analysis, and evaluation of text coherence.
Alireza Ahmadi, Salma Parhizgar
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Discourse Structure in Machine Translation Evaluation
Computational Linguistics, 2017 In this article, we explore the potential of using sentence-level discourse structure for machine translation evaluation. We first design discourse-aware similarity measures, which use all-subtree kernels to compare discourse parse trees in accordance ...
Shafiq Joty +3 more
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Taxonomy of Discourse Signals for RST Relations: A Study in a News Corpus [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada: We have observed that the relationship between two or more textual propositions is not always signaled by prepositions or conjunctions, commonly referred to as Discourse Markers (DMs).
Jackson Wilke da Cruz Souza +2 more
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Narrative-based writing for coherent technical documents [PDF]
, 2007 Narrative-based writing is a technique that was developed to address the lack of support for document coherence. The technique depends on the production of a story-like executive summary of the document called a DN (Document Narrative).
Peter Henderson +3 more
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RST-Enhanced Depression Detection: A Feature-Fusion Ensemble Framework
AlgorithmsEarly identification of depression risk from social media text can support large-scale screening and timely follow-up. However, posts are often emotionally complex and linguistically ambiguous, which makes robust detection challenging.
Sahar Ajmal +5 more
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Multiple Signals of Coherence Relations
Discours, 2019 In this paper, we investigate the signalling of coherence relations when they are simultaneously indicated by more than one signal. In particular, we examine the co-occurrence of discourse markers and other relational signals when they are used together ...
Debopam Das, Maite Taboada
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