Intensive exchange of scientific and technical information, important role English in the intercultural communication actualize task to provide information easy read analyze. The paper deals with stylistic functional peculiarities modern texts, namely advertisement texts. functions texts are analyzed. article presents analysis linguistic extra means realization text communicative function. Our ...

The AlethGen tool has been used to build a system for automatically generating replies to complaints, for a European mail-order company. In the current version, letters are generated in French. AlethGen consists of several modules: the text deep structure planner (or conceptual planner), the text surface structure planner (or rhetorical planner), the computation of pronouns and quantifiers, and...

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...

Discourse connectives can show sense ambiguities, in that they can signal more than one possible rhetorical relation. The aim of this study is discover how to disambiguate such discourse connectives using a statistical model. Six discourse connectives (after, as soon as, before, once, since and while) which show ambiguities in the sdrt (Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (Asher & Lascari...

The study of argumentation has undergone periods of decadence alternate with periods of renaissance. Currently, we are witnessing one of the latter, as proved by research flowering in many issues and aspects, both in Philosophy and in Artificial Intelligence. The work presented in this thesis is concerned in particular with “rhetorical argumentation”, which on the other hand has enjoyed conside...