Constructing a Rhetorical Figuration Ontology
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چکیده
Many essential components of language charted by rhetoric, the ancient study of persuasion, remain understudied and underrepresented in current Natural Language systems. Our goal is to combine linguistic and rhetorical theories with discourse analysis and machine learning to develop formal models of computational rhetoric that may be usefully applied in real-world Computational Linguistics systems. As part of this initiative, we are building an ontology of rhetorical figures and formalizing their expression.
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