Rhetorical structure analysis (RSA) explores discourse relations among elementary discourse units (EDUs) in a text. It is very useful in many text processing tasks employing relationships among EDUs such as text understanding, summarization, and question-answering. Thai language with its distinctive linguistic characteristics requires a unique technique. This article proposes an approach for Th...

Studies on rhetorical features of language have reported both enhancing and adverse effects on ease of processing. We hypothesized that two explanations may account for these inconclusive findings. First, the respective gains and losses in ease of processing may apply to different dimensions of language processing (specifically, prosodic and semantic processing) and different types of fluency (...

It takes time to get through Kierkegaard’s edifying discourses, not because philosophical and theological terminology complicates appropriation, as is the case with pseudonymous works, but rather of their rhetorical complexity. This due, in turn, fact that discourses ought be read slowly. The reader thereby exposed time, experiences which what are about. In each text, rhetoric just a meaning­fu...

This paper presents DiZer, an automatic DIscourse analyZER for Brazilian Portuguese. Given a source text, the system automatically produces its corresponding rhetorical analysis, following Rhetorical Structure Theory – RST (Mann and Thompson, 1987). A rhetorical repository, which is DiZer main component, makes the automatic analysis possible. This repository, produced by means of a corpus analy...

This paper presents the study of rhetorical moves on thesis abstracts accounting students at Muhammadiyah University Bengkulu. The motive this research is to examine how far students' understanding in using their abstracts. Under qualitative descriptive method, 20 are taken randomly based abstract, which was being proofread Language Center Bengkulu, 2021. Data were further discussed light by Sw...

Computationally modeling the evolution of science by tracking how scientific topics rise and fall over time has important implications for research funding and public policy. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying topic growth and decline. We investigate the role of rhetorical framing: whether the rhetorical role or function that authors ascribe to topics (as methods, as goals...