PERSUASION: THE POWER OF PERSUASION AS A TEACHING TOOL FOR LEARNING GREEK AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

In our study, we examine the compelling reason and the ancient Greek tradition as method of argumentation as this was born and cultivated in the Rhetoric art at the 5th to 4th century BC. We implement the implications of its use in the teaching and learning of Greek as a second or foreign language in everyday life and at school. The most important orators including Demosthenes, Lysias, Aeschinus and Isocrates are our examples for creating teaching tools for our teaching suggestions. Aristotle as a philosopher, teacher and orator inspired scholars from around the world and he is also included in this suggestion. Especially, on the occasion of the year in honor of Aristotle in 2016, we refer to an example inspired from his work for our didactics in Greek language applications. Today, the Greek educational system includes argumentation and the Rhetoric art as part of its curriculum in primary and secondary education. The aim and idea is to teach students how to think, to ponder, to justify and document their views, to argue and learn a foreign language with the help of teachers who are scientifically trained for this role. This article aims to highlight the value of persuasion and the power that is why not only the justification and documentation but a view and use arguments with which to convince his interlocutor in the teaching of Greek as a second or foreign language.  Article visualizations

Metagnostic deductive question answering with explanation from texts

The present paper presents a system called AMYNTAS for " metagnostic" deductive question answering from texts. This system can logically combine information from texts and answer questions generating explanations for its operation exhibiting "self-awareness". The deductions are performed directly with the natural language text without previous translation into a formal representation. The "metagnostic" effect is accomplished by representing and processing the state of linguistic processing and reasoning of the system. The system is implemented in Prolog and uses a text grammar to parse sentences that contain the information being sought. The system uses reasoning rules, lexicon, ontology, prerequisite knowledge and the history of its state. The system may easily be adapted to completely different domains such as biomedical texts and texts of the proofs of theorems of Euclidean geometry. An evaluation performed with real sentences from these two completely different domains gave satisfactory results of accuracy and facility of domain adaptation. © 2011 Springer-Verlag