abstract thematic development refers to the way theme and rheme in the clause are developed. the theory of rhetorical structure can be defined as the strategies that follow specific ways to make writing more persuasive. the present study aimed to examine how iraqi writers maintain cohesion in the text by analyzing the patterns of thematic progression in various rhetorical sections in an online ...

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...

We constructed a Japanese opinion extraction system for Japanese newspaper articles using a machinelearning method for the system. We used opinionannotated articles as learning data for the machinelearning method. The system extracts opinionated sentences from newspaper articles, and specifies opinion holders and opinion polarities of the extracted sentences. The system also evaluates whether o...