Tile Sumerian proverb in the title is invoked by Julian Jaynes (1976) as he documents the laborious process of coming to consciousness. This activity is the cognitive labor that enables us to arrive at a question about the precise relationship between two types of knowledge, or ask if "rhetorical relations [are] the realizations of intentions, or should . . . be discarded as simply a misconstru...

Today, international communication has got a great significance for people around the world. Societies are more concerned with the positive and beneficial relations with other nations. It seems that the need for interrelationship with other communities is moving the world towards globalization. In such a world, 'advertising' is looked upon as a handy instrument to call for others' attention. In...

Finding answers to why-questions involves finding arguments in texts, rather than the noun phrases that are typical targets for factoid questions. Detecting arguments requires detecting specific rhetorical structures and relations. Therefore, we proposed the use of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) as a tool for discovering answer to why-questions in paragraphs that are likely to contain the an...

Much has been written on the nature and use of so-called rhetorical relations to govern the structure anti coherence of discourse, and much has been written on the need for communicative intentions to govern discourse construction. In early research on automated text creation, the operationalized structural relations from Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) [Mann & Thompson 88] were used both to ...

Finding answers to why-questions involves finding arguments in texts, rather than the noun phrases that are typical targets for factoid questions. Detecting arguments requires detecting specific rhetorical structures and relations. Therefore, we proposed the use of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) as a tool for discovering answer to why-questions in paragraphs that are likely to contain the an...

This paper summarizes the latest, final version of ISO standard 24617-2 “Semantic annotation framework, Part 2: Dialogue acts”. Compared to the preliminary version ISO DIS 24617-2:2010, described in Bunt et al. (2010), the final version additionally includes concepts for annotating rhetorical relations between dialogue units, defines a full-blown compositional semantics for the Dialogue Act Mar...

Polarity classification of opinionated sentences with both positive and negative sentiments1 is a key challenge in sentiment analysis. This paper presents a novel unsupervised method for discovering intra-sentence level discourse relations for eliminating polarity ambiguities. Firstly, a discourse scheme with discourse constraints on polarity was defined empirically based on Rhetorical Structur...

The explicit consideration of an addressee’s inferences during discourse planning affects the content and coherence of the generated discourse. The content of the discourse is affected because the consideration of an addressee’s inferences may require the addition of information that addresses erroneous inferences or suggest the omission of easily inferred information. The coherence of the disc...