In this paper we address the problem of skewed class distribution in implicit discourse relation recognition. We examine the performance of classifiers for both binary classification predicting if a particular relation holds or not and for multi-class prediction. We review prior work to point out that the problem has been addressed differently for the binary and multi-class problems. We demonst...

The effective practice of medicine requires narrative competence, that is, the ability to acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and plights of others. Medicine practiced with narrative competence, called narrative medicine, is proposed as a model for humane and effective medical practice. Adopting methods such as close reading of literature and reflective writing allows narrati...

We present the Royal Society Corpus (RSC) built from the Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. At present, the corpus contains articles from the first two centuries of the journal (1665–1869) and amounts to around 35 million tokens. The motivation for building the RSC is to investigate the diachronic linguistic development of scientific English. Specifically...

In this paper we draw on the concept of fantasy and principles political discourse theory to develop an analytical framework for study Veja's anti-populist discourse. As one Brazil's most influential publications in elite policy-making circles, Veja exerts considerable influence over way populist politics is portrayed understood. By tracking signifiers ‘populism’ ‘populist’ pages weekly magazin...

Digital platforms need to attract both application developers and end users. Existing literature suggests various strategies related to openness, flexibility, and generativity to attract application developers. However, how consumers make decisions on adopting platforms has not been studied. This paper studies which characteristics of digital platforms consumers most prefer. We focus on mobile ...

in spite of a general commonsensical understanding of justice, the plurality of the considerations that are involved in its social applications has subjected the air of justice discourse to confusion. the question is whether the term justice is used univocally in such various domains as law, politics, and economy and whether semantic patterns of justice such as granting right, observing compete...

in diasporic literature the question of identity is tangled with the question of history. this study aims at discussing how yasmin crowther reviews the persian tradition in the saffron kitchen, her autobiographical novel which is mainly set-in early 60s, iran. the novel focuses on evoking and rewriting history by using different types of counter narratives that contrast with iranian hegemonic d...

“In 1962 Dr Daryl Beach presented the theory of proprioceptive derived (pd) posture; the idea that the dentist can use proprioceptive self-awareness to determine the most efficient, stress-free method to perform dental procedures. This is called the pd concept or performance logic directed at adopting a Balanced Home Position. This concept states it would be possible to attain an ideal and bala...