In Rhetorical Structure Theory, discourse units participate in asymmetric relationships, with one element acting as the nucleus and the other as the satellite. In the resulting tree-like nuclearity structure, the importance of each discourse unit can be measured by the number of relations in which it acts as the nucleus or as the satellite. Existing approaches to automatically parsing such stru...

Rhetorical approach is a tool that can be used to analyze essay writing. Not only but also help us making an essay. By using rhetorical, the writer narrate, describe, classify, and give example. This research discusses about structure difficulties of tertiary learners in writing based on rhetorical approach. The sample this was they became source data research. Writing test as instrument Here, ...

The abstract of scientific papers has strong semantic structure, which contains abundant meaningful information, such as the background, research problem, solution, and result. Marking it out can help the computer understand and use this underlying information, which can provide great help for searching and scanning papers. In order to annotate the semantics of the paper automatically, we model...

We show that discourse structure, as defined by Rhetorical Structure Theory and provided by an existing discourse parser, benefits text categorization. Our approach uses a recursive neural network and a newly proposed attention mechanism to compute a representation of the text that focuses on salient content, from the perspective of both RST and the task. Experiments consider variants of the ap...

We present in this paper the development process and the evaluation procedure of a Brazilian Portuguese discourse parser called DiZer. Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory, DiZer is a symbolic cue phrase-based analyzer that makes use of discourse templates learned from a corpus of scientific texts to identify and build the discourse structure of texts. DiZer evaluation shows satisfactory result...

This paper presents the review and evaluation of DiZer – an automatic discourse analyzer for Brazilian Portuguese. Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory, DiZer is a symbolic analyzer that makes use of linguistic patterns learned from a corpus of scientific texts to identify and build the discourse structure of texts. DiZer evaluation shows satisfactory results for scientific texts. In order to t...

Rhetorical structure in speaking is essential to guiding students through and making public speeches. Thus, this research explores the students’ mastery of rhetorical a speech, their challenges, potential solutions. A mixed method with an explanatory design was employed achieve objectives. The data were collected test interviews using instruments validated by peer researchers. analysed quantita...