It is generally accepted that a discourse connective expresses a semantic and/or pragmatic relation between its matrix sentence or clause and something in the previous discourse. Usually the sense of this relation is expressed as a label, often within a hierarchy of sense labels. But the meaning of these labels may vary from system to system, and the same connective may be assigned different la...

Monolingual alignment models have been shown to boost the performance of question answering systems by ”bridging the lexical chasm” between questions and answers. The main limitation of these approaches is that they require semistructured training data in the form of question-answer pairs, which is difficult to obtain in specialized domains or lowresource languages. We propose two inexpensive m...

Three procedures are described for the extraction and purification of renin from 0.05 to 500 g of human kidneys. A uniform yield of renin, free of angiotensinase, resulted from all three procedures. All tests for renin were carried out in dogs. When more than 10 g of renal tissue was used, renin was determined by the direct method; with smaller amounts, the indirect method, involving the produc...

This paper is concerned with the robust analysis of the discourse structure of a text via underspecification. Most current discourse theories (e.g. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) by Mann and Thompson (1988), Abduction by Hobbs et al. (1993) or Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) by Asher (1993)) require detailed world and context knowledge for the derivation of the discourse str...

the islamic revolution helped develop a new discourse and semantic system. one of the methods to study or analyze the political phenomena is critical discourse analysis namely, that of laclau and mouffe›s discourse, the most pertinent. this article examines its main question whether the values of the islamic revolution concepts and identity are constructed, spread and articulated according to l...

osz et al., 1995) tries to explain relations among attention, anaphora, and theoretical limitations. The first is the lack of a principle behind these a. The second is that the salience of discourse entities has not been d, although it plays a critical role in this theory. Hasida et al. (1995, 1996) game as a more principled model of intentional communication based on im that it can derive cent...

In recent years, the concept of ‘free speech’ appears to have reached a position significant prominence in public debate. this context, we ask how free speech was used discursively by Morrison-led government. Utilising political discourse analytic approach, and examining texts from 2019 2021, argue that, show how, government engaged multiple discourses around that were incompatible, inconsisten...