one of the important subjects in rhetoric is the study of secondary meanings in sentences. questions are sentences which demonstrate neither facts nor lies. rhetorical questions often need no answers but attempt to show some rhetorical functions such as surprise, denial, regret, desire, etc. in this article, first, the structure and the frequency of questions in qeysar aminpour’s poetry volumes...

This study investigates the prosodic realization of organizational features of texts. Twenty read aloud news reports were annotated according to Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST). This theory defines the clustering of elementary units (clauses) into larger segments (hierarchical organization), the relative importance of units (nuclearity) and the rhetorical relations between segments. The proso...

Modeling document structure is of great importance for discourse analysis and related applications. The goal of this research is to capture the document intent structure by modeling documents as a mixture of topic words and rhetorical words. While the topics are relatively unchanged through one document, the rhetorical functions of sentences usually change following certain orders in discourse....

This study aims to find the rhetorical structure of Move and Step which are often found in Speaking for Presentation class. Additionally, this research looks into typical pattern students’ presentations used a mixed-method strategy that incorporates qualitative quantitative data. The object is 30 video 4th-semester English education students from class at Bengkulu University. From study, it was...

The most important part of patent specification is where the claims are written. It is common that claims written in Japanese are described in one sentence with peculiar style and are difficult to understand for ordinary people. We are investigating NLP technologies to improve readability of patent claims. To do so, it is necessary to present the structure of patent claims in a readable way. We...

Introduction This article focuses on a Natural Language Processing (NLP) approach for the analysis of citation functions in scientific papers. Bibliometric studies traditionally rely on citation metadata and count the number of times a publication has been cited. However, some recent studies rely also on full text processing on papers, e.g. (Boyack et al., 2013), (Bertin et al., 2013, 2014). Th...

Before a president practically begins his four-year term of office in Iran, a formal inaugural ceremony is held in the parliament. Being attended by national dignitaries and representatives from other countries, the inauguration of Iran's seventh president, Hasan Rouhani, was spectacular in several respects. The current study aimed at investigating the generic structure and rhetorical moves tha...