Empirical Studies in Discourse

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-12

  Walker, Marilyn A ^a   Moore, Johanna D ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

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EMPIRICAL STUDIES;

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