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We analyse the correlation both of SE classes and of modal verbs and senses with components of argument structures (such as premises and conclusions) and their functions (such as support and rebuttal). We find interesting tendencies in the correlations between both argument components and argumentative functions with SE types.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>We also see interesting differences in the distributions of modal verbs and senses within different argumentative components and functions, as well as evidence that modal senses can be helpful to distinguish conclusions and premises. We conclude that both semantic clause types and modal senses can be deployed for automatic recognition and fine-grained classification of argumentative text passages.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3233\/aac-170019","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,7,21]],"date-time":"2017-07-21T11:01:39Z","timestamp":1500634899000},"page":"95-112","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Semantic clause types and modality as features for argument analysis"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Maria","family":"Becker","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Leibniz ScienceCampus \u201cEmpirical Linguistics and Computational Language Modeling\u201d, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 325, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany"},{"name":"Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 325, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. 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