evidence occupies a paramount position in any logical endeavor and research article is consensually considered a predominant site of such an endeavor. one interesting area of rhetoric which addresses the source and reliability of evidence is quality metadiscourse. in this qualitative study, quality metadiscourse strategies (i.e., evidentials, hedges, boosters and disclaimers) are examined to in...

In this paper, we focus on the task of identifying the best answer for a usergenerated question in Collaborative Question Answering (CQA) services. Given that most existing research on CQA has focused on non-textual features such as click-through counts which are relatively difficult to access, we examine the effectiveness of diverse content-based features for the task. Specially, we propose to...

We propose a semantic analysis of the particles afinal (European Portuguese) and alla fine (Italian) in terms of the notion of truth unpersistence, which combines both epistemic modality and constraints on discourse structure. We argue that the felicitous use of these modal particles requires that the truth of a proposition p* fail to persist through a temporal succession of epistemic states, w...

In spite of the current need in the computational community for digital corpora in different languages with complex linguistic annotations going beyond morphosyntactic features, there is not much work within the Digital Humanities community dedicated to this task. In this paper I describe recent work on the development of a bilingual (English-Spanish) corpus consisting of original comparable an...

The aim of this study is twofold: firstly, it presents a general overview the evidentiality system in Galician, and secondly, explores use its marker seica. We will argue that, apart from core evidential meanings, which are independent epistemic modality, markers conversation index social meanings related to asymmetry authority, face-saving strategies, detachment, irony, deference towards heare...

this paper attempts to indicate that the two conceptual categories of evidentiality and epistemic modality are distinct although they may look similar; thus their corresponding adverbs also consist of separate subcategories of adverbs. to attain this goal, different data were gathered both from written and spoken sources and analyzed mostly with the help of semantic considerations in the framew...