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Fig. 7. A Tech Review by Alsop (Alsop33).
a knowledge-based approach to text analysis can be used to support rather than
replace the intuitions of the rhetorical reader. While our research suggests the
value of hand-coding as a way of capturing implicit intuitions between language
and culture, there are obvious advantages in trying to use machine methods to
extend humanly-constructed dictionaries. This is an important extension of our
work for the future.
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