Discourse models have received significant attention in the computational linguistics community with some important connections to the non-computational discourse community. More recently, the importance of discourse annotation has increased as models generated with supervised machine learning techniques are being used to annotate text automatically. A primary area for annotation is science. Th...

Despite the central role that argumentation plays in human communication, the computational linguistics community has paid relatively little attention in proposing a methodology for automatically identifying arguments and their relations in texts. Argumentation is intimately related with discourse structure, since an argument often spans more than one phrase, forming thus an entity with its own...

European Journal of Information Systems (2012) 21, 341–344. doi:10.1057/ejis.2012.34 This is my first opportunity as editor to address the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) community, and I take great pleasure in doing so. We are a diverse community of readers, authors, reviewers and editors. Indeed, cultivating diversity of research methods and topics, presentation genres, culture...

This research examines the service learning activities and written discourse of pre-service teachers from a cohort of 50 young women who were among the first generation in their community to complete a local university education with BA degrees in English language and literature combined with a subsequent teaching diploma to become English teachers. Based on written reports about service projec...

The present study aimed at understanding the work of the Community Health Agent (CHA) in the field of Oral Health in Brazilian Family Health Units (FHU) in 2005. This study represents a qualitative approach to the meanings and feelings that underlie the know-how in Oral Health of the CHA, showing his experience in this process. The sample consisted of nine CHAs from two Family Health Units. Dat...