In this paper we examine the issues that arise from the annotation of the discourse connectives for the Chinese Discourse Treebank Project. This project is based on the same principles as the PDTB, a project that annotates the English discourse connectives in the Penn Treebank. The paper begins by outlining range of discourse connectives under consideration in this project and examines the dist...

As numerous scholars have noted, cancer survivorship is often represented in popular discourse as providing an opportunity for a physical, emotional, and spiritual makeover. However, this idea that cancer enables the self to be remade on all levels is also increasingly evoked in the field of psychosocial oncology. Exploring cancer survivorship as a biopolitical phenomenon, I focus on two concep...

Conceptual data modelling techniques aim at the representation of data at a high level of abstraction. The Conceptualisation Principle states that only those aspects are to be represented that deal with the meaning of the Universe of Discourse. Conventional conceptual data modelling techniques, as e.g. ER or NIAM, have to violate the Conceptualisation Principle when dealing with objects with a ...

KEYWORDS: metaphor-understanding algorithms metaphor of mind reasoning about agents' mental states personiication metaphor uncertain reasoning ABSTRACT: An implemented reasoning called ATT-Meta is sketched. It performs a type of metaphor-based reasoning. Although it relies on built-in knowledge of speciic metaphors, where a metaphor is a conceptual view of ones topic as another, it is very exib...

critical pedagogy (cp), as a poststructuralist educational movement, challenges the asymmetrical, power-over nature of classroom discourse and seeks to accommodate multivocality in the classroom and in the society. this study probed the discourse architecture of efl classrooms in iran. specifically, it aimed to explore to what extent iranian efl classrooms have stepped away from the teacher-dom...

the present study examined the effect of grouped meta-cognitive therapy on meta-cognitive beliefs of patients' suffering from generalized anxiety disorder. this research is a quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design with control group in which two groups of experiment and control are used. the present study population includes all state universities, islamic azad universities ...

This paper draws from 21 years of discourse to examine a narrative about IBM’s transition to a service-oriented company. Covering three leadership eras during a period of sweeping change for IBM and the information technology industry, this discourse, found in the IBM Corporation’s annual reports, in illustrates the emergence of policy, technology, and business models in one of the largest and ...

This paper describes our two discourse parsers (i.e., English discourse parser and Chinese discourse parser) for submission to CoNLL-2016 shared task on Shallow Discourse Parsing. For English discourse parser, we build two separate argument extractors for single sentence (SS) case, and adopt a convolutional neural network for Non-Explicit sense classification based on (Wang and Lan, 2015b)’s wo...

Without discourse connectives, classifying implicit discourse relations is a challenging task and a bottleneck for building a practical discourse parser. Previous research usually makes use of one kind of discourse framework such as PDTB or RST to improve the classification performance on discourse relations. Actually, under different discourse annotation frameworks, there exist multiple corpor...