Currently,there has been a growing interest in the study of academic writing;focusing on the structural organization of academic text or specific linguistic features.However,very few studies have been done on the stru...Currently,there has been a growing interest in the study of academic writing;focusing on the structural organization of academic text or specific linguistic features.However,very few studies have been done on the structural organization of the Methods and the linguistic features link to each move.Thus,the purpose of this study is to identify rhetorical structure of the Methods of agricultural science research articles and to explore the linguistic features linked to each identified move,by analyzing thirty research articles based on Kanoksilapatham's2005 framework.Altogether,five moves were found in the Methods,showing that rhetorical structure of Methods in agricultural science has its own format.The moves and linguistic features realizing rhetorical functions may help novice researchers or learners write the Methods of science research articles effectively and professionally.展开更多
In this article, the general text structure of English and Chinese will be stated respectively at first. Then the issue of whether different rhetoric between Chinese and English will influence the reading comprehensio...In this article, the general text structure of English and Chinese will be stated respectively at first. Then the issue of whether different rhetoric between Chinese and English will influence the reading comprehension of the Chinese students will be analyzed and evaluated.展开更多
Early studies on discourse rhetorical structure parsing mainly adopt bottom-up approaches,limiting the parsing process to local information.Although current top-down parsers can better capture global information and h...Early studies on discourse rhetorical structure parsing mainly adopt bottom-up approaches,limiting the parsing process to local information.Although current top-down parsers can better capture global information and have achieved particular success,the importance of local and global information at various levels of discourse parsing is differ-ent.This paper argues that combining local and global information for discourse parsing is more sensible.To prove this,we introduce a top-down discourse parser with bidirectional representation learning capabilities.Existing corpora on Rhetorical Structure Theory(RST)are known to be much limited in size,which makes discourse parsing very challenging.To alleviate this problem,we leverage some boundary features and a data augmentation strategy to tap the potential of our parser.We use two methods for evaluation,and the experiments on the RST-DT corpus show that our parser can pri-marily improve the performance due to the effective combination of local and global information.The boundary features and the data augmentation strategy also play a role.Based on gold standard elementary discourse units(EDUs),our pars-er significantly advances the baseline systems in nuclearity detection,with the results on the other three indicators(span,relation,and full)being competitive.Based on automatically segmented EDUs,our parser still outperforms previous state-of-the-artwork.展开更多
文摘Currently,there has been a growing interest in the study of academic writing;focusing on the structural organization of academic text or specific linguistic features.However,very few studies have been done on the structural organization of the Methods and the linguistic features link to each move.Thus,the purpose of this study is to identify rhetorical structure of the Methods of agricultural science research articles and to explore the linguistic features linked to each identified move,by analyzing thirty research articles based on Kanoksilapatham's2005 framework.Altogether,five moves were found in the Methods,showing that rhetorical structure of Methods in agricultural science has its own format.The moves and linguistic features realizing rhetorical functions may help novice researchers or learners write the Methods of science research articles effectively and professionally.
文摘In this article, the general text structure of English and Chinese will be stated respectively at first. Then the issue of whether different rhetoric between Chinese and English will influence the reading comprehension of the Chinese students will be analyzed and evaluated.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.62276178。
文摘Early studies on discourse rhetorical structure parsing mainly adopt bottom-up approaches,limiting the parsing process to local information.Although current top-down parsers can better capture global information and have achieved particular success,the importance of local and global information at various levels of discourse parsing is differ-ent.This paper argues that combining local and global information for discourse parsing is more sensible.To prove this,we introduce a top-down discourse parser with bidirectional representation learning capabilities.Existing corpora on Rhetorical Structure Theory(RST)are known to be much limited in size,which makes discourse parsing very challenging.To alleviate this problem,we leverage some boundary features and a data augmentation strategy to tap the potential of our parser.We use two methods for evaluation,and the experiments on the RST-DT corpus show that our parser can pri-marily improve the performance due to the effective combination of local and global information.The boundary features and the data augmentation strategy also play a role.Based on gold standard elementary discourse units(EDUs),our pars-er significantly advances the baseline systems in nuclearity detection,with the results on the other three indicators(span,relation,and full)being competitive.Based on automatically segmented EDUs,our parser still outperforms previous state-of-the-artwork.
