PropBank has been widely used as training data for Semantic Role Labeling. However, because this training data is taken from theWSJ, the resulting machine learning models tend to overfit on idiosyncrasies of that text’s style, and do not port well to other genres. In addition, since PropBank was designed on a verb-by-verb basis, the argument labels Arg2 Arg5 get used for very diverse argument r...

Argument visualisation (AV) tools facilitate structured debates utilising elements such as issues, positions and arguments. In this way, AV tools seem promising for improving eParticipation e.g. by avoiding repetition and enhancing clarity in debates. In this paper we present and discuss citizens’ opinion on utilising an AV platform for eParticipation, specifically for discussing the emerging t...

This essay is about how four deeply important Kantian ideas can significantly illuminate some essentially intertwined issues in philosophical theology, philosophical logic, the metaphysics of agency, and above all, morality. These deeply important Kantian ideas are: (1) Kant’s argument for the impossibility of the Ontological Argument, (2) Kant’s first “postulate of pure practical reason,” immo...

Social psychology shows that the effect of a persuasive argument depends on characteristics of the person to be persuaded, including the person’s involvement with the topic and the discrepancy between the person’s current position on the topic and the argument’s position. Via a series of experiments, this paper provides insight into how the receiver’s position can be modelled computationally, a...

PropBank has been widely used as training data for Semantic Role Labeling. However, because this training data is taken from theWSJ, the resulting machine learning models tend to overfit on idiosyncrasies of that text’s style, and do not port well to other genres. In addition, since PropBank was designed on a verb-by-verb basis, the argument labels Arg2 Arg5 get used for very diverse argument r...

This paper extends a previous claim that auxiliary selection in the present perfect of monadic verbs reflects a pattern grounded in lexico-aspectual properties of individual verbs though mediated through their syntax. A novel argument in support of this conclusion is made, based on the cross-contextual typology of auxiliaries, showing that the cross-linguistic distribution of auxiliaries in the...

This paper argues that transitive verbs can have non-agent external arguments and nonpatient internal arguments, at least in Chinese. However the apparent free thematic mapping is subject to the following generalizations: there is neither agent internal argument nor patient external argument, and if an external argument is not an agent, the internal argument must be patient, whereas if an inter...

This article provides a brief introduction to a number of key advances in LFG since the late 1980s. A description of the framework itself is given in Neidle (this volume), which provides an overview of the 1982 version of the theory, together with a sketch of a major subsequent development, Lexical Mapping Theory. LFG as a framework for linguistic description has its roots in the desire to elab...

Diagrammatic models of argument have grown in prominence in recent years. While they have been applied in a number of tutoring contexts, it has not yet been shown that student-produced diagrams can be used to effectively grade students or predict their future performance. We show that manually-assigned diagram grades and automatic structural features of argument diagrams can be used to predict ...