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Minimizing The Dangers Of Air Pollution Using Alternative Facts: A Science Museum Case Study, David H. Lee
Minimizing The Dangers Of Air Pollution Using Alternative Facts: A Science Museum Case Study, David H. Lee
Publications and Research
A science museum exhibition about human health contains an exhibit that minimizes health impacts of air pollution. Relevant details, such as the full range of health risks; fossil fuel combustion; air quality statutes (and the local electrical utility’s violations of these statues), are omitted, while end users of electricity are blamed. The exhibit accomplishes this, not through outright falsification, but through selected “alternative facts” that change the focus and imply misleading alternate explanations. Using two classical rhetorical concepts (the practical syllogism and the enthymeme) allows for the surfacing of missing evidence and unstated directives underlying multimodal rhetoric. By stating multimedia …
Rhetoric’S Demagogue | Demagoguery’S Rhetoric: An Introduction, Ryan Skinnell
Rhetoric’S Demagogue | Demagoguery’S Rhetoric: An Introduction, Ryan Skinnell
Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature
Despite varying understandings of who or what a demagogue is or what a demagogue does, it is little surprise that demagoguery has long occupied rhetoricians, who are of course also interested in persuasion, argument, politics, public speech, affect, emotion, ethics, deliberative discourse, and essentially all the other realms of rhetorical action touched by the demagogue. Still, after more than two and a half millennia of deliberation on the matter, rhetoricians are still grappling with demagoguery—how to define it, how to identify who engages in it, how to explain its rhetorical character and effects, how to resist it, and how to …
Typed Document: The College And University Women’S Public Leadership Consortium Mentors
Typed Document: The College And University Women’S Public Leadership Consortium Mentors
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
List of mentors for The College and University Women's Public Leadership Consortium. No date given Box: 7 Folder: 15
George Carter Collection, George Carter
George Carter Collection, George Carter
Center for Restoration Studies Archives, Manuscripts and Personal Papers Finding Aids
No abstract provided.
Ua12/2/28 Forensics Team, Wku Archives
Ua12/2/28 Forensics Team, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about the forensics / debate team.
Ua1c11/93 Wku Forensics Team Photo Collection, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/93 Wku Forensics Team Photo Collection, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Photographs created by and about the WKU Forensics Team.
Ua99/6/1 Bowling Green Business University Student Affairs Student Organizations, Wku Archives
Ua99/6/1 Bowling Green Business University Student Affairs Student Organizations, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by student organizations.
Automatically Extracting Meaning From Legal Texts: Opportunities And Challenges, Kevin D. Ashley
Automatically Extracting Meaning From Legal Texts: Opportunities And Challenges, Kevin D. Ashley
Articles
This paper examines impressive new applications of legal text analytics in automated contract review, litigation support, conceptual legal information retrieval, and legal question answering against the backdrop of some pressing technological constraints. First, artificial intelligence (Al) programs cannot read legal texts like lawyers can. Using statistical methods, Al can only extract some semantic information from legal texts. For example, it can use the extracted meanings to improve retrieval and ranking, but it cannot yet extract legal rules in logical form from statutory texts. Second, machine learning (ML) may yield answers, but it cannot explain its answers to legal questions or …
Using Ai To Analyze Patent Claim Indefiniteness, Dean Alderucci, Kevin D. Ashley
Using Ai To Analyze Patent Claim Indefiniteness, Dean Alderucci, Kevin D. Ashley
Articles
In this Article, we describe how to use artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to partially automate a type of legal analysis, determining whether a patent claim satisfies the definiteness requirement. Although fully automating such a high-level cognitive task is well beyond state-of-the-art AI, we show that AI can nevertheless assist the decision maker in making this determination. Specifically, the use of custom AI technology can aid the decision maker by (1) mining patent text to rapidly bring relevant information to the decision maker attention, and (2) suggesting simple inferences that can be drawn from that information.
We begin by summarizing the …