The organization of discourse is multifaceted. Theories that take a single perspective on discourse structure, examining for example only goal satisfaction or textual coherence or ignoring the context in which a text was generated, will fail to identify the full functional significance of the content and organization of text. The task of generating coherent text to meet some communicative inten...

The generalised, automated reconstruction of the reasoning structures underlying persuasive communication is an enormously challenging task. While this work in argument mining is increasingly informed by the rich tradition of argumentation studies outside the computational field, the rhetorical perspective on argumentation is thus far largely ignored. To explore the application of rhetorical in...

The aim of this research is to study effects of global and local structure of texts and of rhetorical relations between sentences on the prosodic realization of sentences in read aloud text. Twenty texts were analysed using Rhetorical Structure Theory. Based on these analyses, the global structure in terms of hierarchical level, the local structure in terms of the relative importance of text se...

  Translation of the Holy Quran can be difficult for translators in terms of accuracy and translatability. Sometimes translators fail to render the Quranic thoughts because of the lack of language features in target languages. This results in an unfavorable interpretation. One of the challenging aspects of translating Quran is reference switching as rhetorical devices, which are widespread i...

This article describes an effort to generate elliptic sentences, using Dependency Trees connected by Discourse Relations as input. We contend that the process of syntactic aggregation should be performed in the Surface Realization stage of the language generation process, and that Dependency Trees with Rhetorical Relations are excellent input for a generation system that has to generate ellipsi...

1. I n t r o d u c t i o n While communicative intention certainly plays a role in language generation, we have fimnd that there is a need for textual and rhetorical relations as well in our document generation system, PLANDoc. PLANDoc will produce multi-page narratives describing the activities of telephone network planning engineers. These narratives will be read by managers and auditors as w...

Causal networks have been successfully used to explain the process of narrative comprehension in humans (Trabasso et al., 1989). This motivated their use in the automatic creation of fairy tales (Swartjes and Theune, 2006; Theune et al., 2007). Some have suggested that causal relations also play an important role in improving narrative generation from real-life temporal data (Hunter et al., 201...

This paper surveys ontological modeling of rhetorical concepts, developed for use in argument mining and other applications of computational rhetoric, projecting their future directions. We include ontological models of argument schemes applying Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST); the RhetFig proposal for modeling; the related RetFig Ontology of Rhetorical Figures for Serbian (developed by two o...

On the text surface the transition from one communicative goal to another can, for instance , be observed from the text layout. Where a new goal sets in, the p;i.ragral)h structure is often interrupted and a new paragraph begins. Also, the theme of the first sentence of such a new paragraph is in inost ca.ses not related to any element in the previous sentence, which is the case when subsequent...

Rhetorical structuring is field approached mostly by research in natural language (pragmatic) interpretation. However, in natural language generation (NLG) the rhetorical structure plays an important part, in monologues and dialogues as well. Hence, several approaches in this direction exist. In most of these, the rhetorical structure is calculated and built in the framework of Rhetorical Struc...