A comparison has been made of productive vocabulary in some normal university English majors’ theses in China and American final-year undergraduates’ papers. The research demonstrates that with family as the measurement unit, Chinese students proportionally use fewer words of the 1 st , 8th to 10th 1000 frequency level words than American students, while in terms of the 2nd to 4th 1000 frequenc...

We extract from sentences a superstructure made of argumentative operators and connectives applying to the remaining set of terminal sub-sentences. We found the argumentative interpretation of utterances on a semantics defined at the linguistic level. We describe the computation of this particular semantics, based on the constraints that the superstructure impels to the argumentative power of t...

ible in the period between the Korean and Vietnam wars. Academic and popular writings drew attention to those who were not benefitting from that prosperity and evoked a strong public and political response. Within a few years, new legislative and administrative initiatives, linked under the rubric of the “War on Poverty,” dramatically transformed the federal budget and the scope of the nation’s...

Despite its usage in the media, and occasionally within academic writings, the term, “geopolitics,” normally is denigrated for its past associations with disreputable and discredited theories and ideologies. In only the rarest of instances has the term been raised to respectability and utility, although recently, geopolitics has gained some ground toward a modest legitimacy. The ambition of thi...

Context is crucial for identifying argumentative relations in text, but many argument mining methods make little use of contextual features. This paper presents contextaware argumentative relation mining that uses features extracted from writing topics as well as from windows of context sentences. Experiments on student essays demonstrate that the proposed features improve predictive performanc...

This paper proposes a shared task for the identification of the argumentative structure in newspaper editorials. By the term “argumentative structure” we refer to the sequence of argumentative units in the text along with the relations between them. The main contribution is a large-scale dataset with more than 200 annotated editorials, which shall help argumentation mining researchers to evalua...

Studies on the use of synchronous text-based computer-mediated communication (SCMC) tasks have mostly focused on how they could be used to facilitate the learning of different aspects of a second language. Recent research from a functional perspective has suggested the need to examine the impact of SCMC tasks on the development of L2 academic literacy (Mohan & Luo, 2005). With the increase use ...