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Corpus Annotation
In this chapter, we provide an overview of the main concepts relating to corpus annotation, along with some discussion of the practical aspects of...
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Philosophers’ linguistic expertise: a psycholinguistic approach to the expertise objection against experimental philosophy
Philosophers are often credited with particularly well-developed conceptual skills. The ‘expertise objection’ to experimental philosophy builds on...
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Assessing Classification Reliability of Conditionals in Discourse
Conditional constructions ( if–then ) enable us to express our thoughts about possible states of the world, and they form an important ingredient for...
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Writing up a Corpus-Linguistic Paper
In this chapter, we provide a brief characterization of what we consider the best and most common structure that empirical corpus-linguistic papers...
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Meta-analyzing Corpus Linguistic Research
Research synthesis and meta-analysis (RS/MA) comprise a set of procedures for conducting comprehensive and empirically-grounded reviews of previous...
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The Linguistic Formulation of Fallacies Matters: The Case of Causal Connectives
While the role of discourse connectives has long been acknowledged in argumentative frameworks, these approaches often take a coarse-grained approach...
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Characterization Frames Constructing Endoxa in Activists’ Discourse About the Public Controversy Surrounding Fashion Sustainability
This paper investigates the relationship between characterization frames and argumentation in activists’ discourse about the public controversy...
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Corpus Technologies in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
This paper examines the ways in which corpus technologies[aut]Corpus technologies may[aut]Teaching English be used while teaching...
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Corpus Compilation
This chapter deals with the fundamentals of corpus compilation, approached from a practical perspective. The topics covered follow the key phases of...
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Corpus Linguistics Methods in the Study of (Meta)Argumentation
As more and more sophisticated software is created to allow the mining of arguments from natural language texts, this paper sets out to examine the...
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Corpus Architecture
Corpus architecture refers to the set of design decisions taken in the conceptual division and interrelations of types of objects contained in a...
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Corpus Linguistics as Contextual Prosodic Theory (CPT) and Subtext: A New and Final Linguistic Theory
By casting corpus linguistics (CL) as a ‘methodology’ Stephan Th. Gries has managed to delay but not to stifle the debate concerning the right of...
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From Theory of Rhetoric to the Practice of Language Use: The Case of Appeals to Ethos Elements
In their book Commitment in Dialogue , Walton and Krabbe claim that formal dialogue systems for conversational argumentation are “not very realistic...
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The Ethics of Machine Translation
Language technologies are gradually turning into key modalities of our algorithmic present and future. Real world texts embed patterns and patterns...
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Pathos in Natural Language Argumentation: Emotional Appeals and Reactions
In this paper, we present a model of pathos, delineate its operationalisation, and demonstrate its utility through an analysis of natural language...
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Making Biomedical Sciences publications more accessible for machines
With the rapidly expanding catalogue of scientific publications, especially within the Biomedical Sciences field, it is becoming increasingly...
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Diagramming Counterarguments: At the Interface Between Discourse Structure and Argumentation Structure
The chapter addresses the diagramming of counterarguments, i.e. of discourse moves that amount to the presentation of reasons against the acceptance...
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In Conversation with Artificial Intelligence: Aligning language Models with Human Values
Large-scale language technologies are increasingly used in various forms of communication with humans across different contexts. One particular use...
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Quantitative Data and Hermeneutic Methods in the Digital Classics
In an essay published in Digital Humanities Quarterly in 2013, H. Porsdam argues for the need to find the right balance between qualitative and...
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Register Variation in Hellenistic Greek: Factor Analysis of Quantitative Linguistic Patterns
In this study, we offer an exploratory factor analysis of three corpora of Greek texts from the Hellenistic era. We draw generalizations from the...