Paper Info
Title
An Annotation Scheme For Rhetorical Figures
Abstract
There is a driving need computationally to interrogate large bodies of text for a range of non-denotative meaning (e.g., to plot chains of reasoning, detect sentiment, diagnose genre, and so forth). But such meaning has always proven computationally allusive. It is often implicit, 'hidden' meaning, evoked by linguistic cues, stylistic arrangement, or conceptual structure features that have hitherto been difficult for Natural Language Processing systems to recognize and use. Non-denotative textual effects are the historical concern of rhetorical studies, and we have turned to rhetoric in order to find new ways to advance NLP, especially for sophisticated tasks like Argument Mining. This paper highlights certain rhetorical devices that encode levels of meaning that have been overlooked in Computational Linguistics generally and Argument Mining particularly, and yet lend themselves to automated detection. These devices are the linguistic configurations known as Rhetorical Figures. We argue for the importance of these devices for Argument Mining, especially in collocations, and we present an XML annotation scheme for Rhetorical Figures to make figuration more tractable for computational approaches, particularly with an eye on the improvements they offer Argument Mining. We also discuss the intellectual and technical challenges involved in figure annotation and the implications for Machine Learning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3233/AAC-180037
ARGUMENT & COMPUTATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
Rhetoric, rhetorical figures, annotation, argument mining, XML
Annotation,Rhetorical question,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
2
1946-2166
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Randy Allen Harris1113.74
Chrysanne Di Marco2113.13
Sebastian Ruan310.38
Cliff O'Reilly420.73