Title
Ontological Representations Of Rhetorical Figures For Argument Mining
Abstract
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 of the authors); and the Lassoing Rhetoric project (developed by another of the authors). The Lassoing Rhetoric venture is interesting for its multifaceted approach to linguistic devices, prominently including rhetorical figures, but also RST relations and stylistic models, like the use of historic present. This application takes a natural language text input and uses syntactic parsing tools to produce a knowledge base of linguistic entities using references to an OWL ontological framework, locating these devices using Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) logic rules. The paper also reports on a similar approach in research into detecting ironic tweets in a Serbian twitter corpus. The rhetorical schemes used for argument mining are also presented, as well as some suggestions for novel argument schemes based on the ontological approach to rhetorical figuration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3233/AAC-170027
ARGUMENT & COMPUTATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
Rhetorical figures, ontologies, argument schemes, SWRL, argument mining, computational rhetoric
Ontology,Rhetorical question,Philosophy,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Linguistics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
3
1946-2166
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
19
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jelena Mitrovic1144.04
Cliff O'Reilly220.73
Miljana Mladenovic3153.38
Siegfried Handschuh41988181.71