Understanding English Rhetorical Strategies Based on Neurosemantic Analysis

Abstract

Abstract This paper designs and implements a model for analyzing rhetorical strategies of English texts to address practical needs. This paper combines the true word confusion set and the N meta-model to correct word errors. In addition, a discourse parser is constructed based on the theory of rhetorical structure, which analyzes the semantics of the English text from the intra-sentence and inter-sentence perspectives to extract the key information of the discourse. The information is inputted into a memory network that resembles a tree, and the memory units and gating mechanism are employed to obtain semantic structural features. Finally, a hierarchical network model based on the attention mechanism is designed, using a bidirectional long short-term memory network to extract the global dependency information of the text and adding the attention mechanism to make it adaptively select important features related to English rhetorical strategies. Combining learning of a tree-based long short-term memory network and a hierarchical network based on an attention mechanism is used to generate a model for semantic analysis of English text. This paper’s model has the highest accuracy, recall, and F1 value among the mentioned models in the 20newsgroups dataset, with 93.77%, 91.23%, and 90.15%, respectively. The performance on the three rhetorical strategies of explicit metaphor, personification, and analogy is excellent, with classification accuracy above 90%, which will accomplish the task of analyzing and understanding English modification strategies.