Creating Discourse Relationships

One of the main features of the Discourse Graph extension is the ability to create formal discourse relations between nodes just by writing and outlining!

The extension has an in-built grammar that enables it to recognize when certain patterns of writing and outlining are meant to express particular discourse relations (e.g., support, oppose, inform) between discourse nodes. When it recognizes these patterns, it "writes" them to a formal discourse graph data structure, that you can then use to explore or query your discourse graph.

Stock Patterns

• Take a look at Relations Patterns

Verifying relations

You can verify any created relations by checking the discourse context of the claim, evidence, or question page.

Or by running a query for the specific relation.

Digging deeper

Want to recognize other patterns that aren't listed here? Or don't like these? You can change them! But you might first want to understand how the grammar works.