Theresa Crnkovich

Introducing Rhetorical Parallelism Detection: A New Task with Datasets, Metrics, and Baselines

Rhetoric, both spoken and written, involves not only content but also style. One common stylistic tool is $\textit{parallelism}$: the juxtaposition of phrases which have the same sequence of linguistic ($\textit{e.g.}$, phonological, syntactic, semantic) features. Despite the ubiquity of parallelism…