conclusionthat

Conclusionthat is a term used in discourse analysis and natural language processing to describe a specific type of propositional content that functions as the concluding claim within an argumentative sequence and is expressed through a that-clause.

Conceptually, conclusionthat identifies the content of a concluding proposition rather than the premises that lead to it. It is typically encountered in annotated corpora and in frameworks that separate the rhetorical role of a sentence from its propositional content. The term is not universally standardized; it has appeared in small-scale guides and experimental annotation schemes as a label for content that explicitly states the final claim via a that-clause, such as that the intervention is effective in discussions of a study’s results.

In practice, researchers use conclusionthat to facilitate argument mining and discourse analysis by distinguishing the concluding content from the supporting premises. It is related to that-clauses, discourse connectives like therefore, and to broader categories of discourse relations such as result, entailment, and justification. Because usage varies, some schemes label the same content differently or avoid fixed labels for this function.

Examples often appear in annotative work or teaching materials. A sentence like The study shows improvement, and the conclusionthat the intervention is effective is supported by the data illustrates how the content within a that-clause can be treated as the concluding proposition for analytical purposes.

See also: that-clause; discourse relation; argument mining. Note that conclusionthat is a relatively specialized label and is not a universally adopted term.