This paper surveys ontological modeling of rhetorical concepts, developed for use in
argument mining and other applications of computational rhetoric, projecting their future …

Abstract GRhOOT, the German RhetOrical OnTology, is a domain ontology of 110 rhetorical
figures in the German language. The overall goal of building an ontology of rhetorical figures …

Note: Rhetoric has an extensive technical vocabulary. In this introduction, we explain these
terms as we go along. The authors of the papers in this special issue do the same. But it can …

The generalised, automated reconstruction of the reasoning structures underlying
persuasive communication is an enormously challenging task. While this work in argument …

We propose an approach to detecting the rhetorical figure called chiasmus, which involves
the repetition of a pair of words in reverse order, as in “all for one, one for all”. Although …

There is a driving need computationally to interrogate large bodies of text for a range of non-
denotative meaning (eg, to plot chains of reasoning, detect sentiment, diagnose genre, and …

The paper presents RetFig, a formal domain ontology of rhetorical figures for Serbian. This
ontology is one of the necessary steps in developing tools for Natural Language Processing …

There is a deep distrust of experts in America today. Influenced by populist politics, many
question or downright ignore the recommendations of scientists, scholars, and others with …

Identifying rhetorical figures with marginal to non-existent lexico-syntactic signatures poses
significant challenges for computational approaches reliant upon structural definitions or …

Ploke is a rhetorical device of lexical repetition, with multiple variations contingent on place
of occurrence. It is widespread in all natural and artificial languages because it manages …