Technical Communication Quarterly Jan 2023

Building Better Machine Learning Models for Rhetorical Analyses: The Use of Rhetorical Feature Sets for Training Artificial Neural Network Models

Zoltan P. Majdik Dagestan State University ; James Wynn

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate two approaches to building artificial neural network models to compare their effectiveness for accurately classifying rhetorical structures across multiple (non-binary) classes in small textual datasets. We find that the most accurate type of model can be designed by using a custom rhetorical feature list coupled with general-language word vector representations, which outperforms models with more computing-intensive architectures.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2023-01-02
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10.1080/10572252.2022.2077452
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