Modeling of a pragmalinguistics analysis of a discussion forum

Abstract

In the context of researching the appropriate method of human scientists' knowledge capitalization through corpora and corpora interpretation sharing, we present, in this paper, a modeling of an expertise in pragmatics. We follow knowledge engineering techniques and observe an expert when he analyses a social discussion forum. Then we define a number of models. These models emphasize the process followed by the expert and a number of criteria used in his analysis. Results can be used as guides that help understand annotating discussion forums. We aim at modeling other pragmatics analysis in order to complete the basis of guides including criteria, process, etc. of discussion analysis. We plan to consolidate all of these guides in one support tool for analysis sharing and understanding of the interactions in discussion forums. The way we try to explore is to memorize traces of each analyze and follow the evolution of these traces replicated by another researcher and applied to another corpora.