feminist critical discourse analysis is an approach distinguished by its focus on revealing unequal power relations between women and men in their social life. in the present paper, it is suggested that simone de beauvoir’s theory of the formation of gender identity and female subject in the second sex provides a meaningful theoretical ground to the feminist critical discourse analysis. althoug...

This paper presents a novel approach to discourse analysis within information extraction systems. It makes use of DRT as formal representation of the linguistic context as well as of a domain-specific ontology as a basis to compute conceptual relations between extracted events thus establishing discourse coherence. The approach has been implemented within GenIE, an information extraction system...

We investigate whether automatically extracted prosodic features can serve as cues to dialog acts (DAs) in naturallyoccurring meetings. We focus on the classification of four short DAs, all of which can be conveyed by the same words. DAs were hand-labeled based on the discourse context. Results for classifiers trained on automatically extracted prosodic features show significant associations wi...

Keywords: language interpretationlanguage generationdiscourse segmentationdiscourse relations Contents list: Theories of discourse structure; Interpretation of discourse; Generation of discourse; Empirical approaches to discourse Discourse Processing concerns the computational processes underlying the interpretation and production of text encompassing more than one sentence, i.e., discourse. Di...

We present a system that implements an end-to-end discourse parser. The system uses a pipeline architecture with seven stages: preprocessing, recognizing explicit connectives, identifying argument positions, identifying and labeling arguments, classifying explicit and implicit connectives, and identifying attribution structures. The discourse structure of a document is inferred based on these c...

Public libraries have been associated with a Habermasian public sphere, but articulations between public libraries and the public sphere remain undefined. To make fuller sense of the public sphere as it relates to public libraries, we used qualitative content analysis as a research methodology to study 12 Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh annual reports from 1900 to 2010. We identified 6 dimension...

Translation of discourse relations is one of the recent efforts of incorporating discourse information to statistical machine translation (SMT). While existing works focus on disambiguation of ambiguous discourse connectives, or transformation of discourse trees, only explicit discourse relations are tackled. A greater challenge exists in machine translation of Chinese, since implicit discourse...

Discourse audiences are susceptible to fall victims of the concealed ideological representations in discourses at the expanse of changing and modifying their mental models through which they act on the world. Translators as readers and at the same time intercultural mediators need to be equipped with the knowledge of how ideology is accommodated in discourse both not to fall victim to it and to...

We introduce a simple and effective method to learn discourse-specific word embeddings (DSWE) for implicit discourse relation recognition. Specifically, DSWE is learned by performing connective classification on massive explicit discourse data, and capable of capturing discourse relationships between words. On the PDTB data set, using DSWE as features achieves significant improvements over base...

It is sometimes claimed (cf. that discourse has a tree structure which reeects the semantic structure of discourse. In this paper, I argue that this claim is problematic in cases of discourse multiple dependencies i.e. cases where one discourse segment is semantically related to two discourse segments. I develop a discourse framework which is based on Scha/Polanyi 1988] but integrates ideas fro...