abstract rhetorical structure is helpful in improving how the writers maintain cohesion in their writings. this study examines how the iraqi writers maintain cohesion in the text by analyzing the various rhetorical moves in azzaman, an online iraqi newspaper. to this purpose, twelve opinion articles from azzaman iraqi newspaper, published from january 2013 to june 2013 were analyzed. the findin...

This paper surveys ontological modeling of rhetorical concepts, developed for use in argument mining and other applications of computational rhetoric, projecting their future directions. We include ontological models of argument schemes applying Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST); the RhetFig proposal for modeling; the related RetFig Ontology of Rhetorical Figures for Serbian (developed by two o...

Organizations constantly produce and consume organizational language, and these texts and documents are a primary way that organizations interact with their environment. In this paper we compare different types of texts to study variation in how organizations use them to interact with the environment. We argue that the authors of a text will primarily use rhetorical strategies that reflect the ...

Sequence Models and Ranking Methods for Discourse Parsing A dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts by Ben Wellner Many important aspects of natural language reside beyond the level of a single sentence or clause, at the level of the discourse, including: reference relations such anaphora, notions of topic/...

This contribution provides an overview of how argumentation theorists, philosophers, legal theorists and legal philosophers approach questions about the standards for the correctness of legal argumentation. Ideas about the analysis and evaluation of legal argumentation, developed by influential authors in the field, will be examined. The contribution starts with an overview of objectives and me...

Vancomycin Solution for the Treatment of Severe Clostridium Defficile Infection Rania Saleh, MD; Sharon Sam, PharmD; Lisa Russell, MD; Paiboon Jungsuwadee, PhD; Diane Cluxton, PharmD Candidate; Alex Mersch, PharmD Candidate; Infectious Disease, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, IL; Pharmacy, Roosevelt University College of Pharmacy, Schaumburg, IL; Pharmacy, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, IL; Moun...

We present a shift-reduce rhetorical parsing algorithm that learns to construct rhetorical structures of texts from a corpus of discourse-parse action sequences. The algorithm exploits robust lexical, syntactic, and semantic knowledge sources.

This paper investigates engagement resources employed in research article abstracts the field of English for Specific Purposes. Engagement comprise rhetorical strategies by which authors allow or dismiss alternative viewpoints. Excluding dialogic space opinions is termed contraction, while opening up possibility alternatives expansion. These are described within Appraisal theory Systemic Functi...