A model of rhetorical structure analysis of Japanese instructional texts and its application to a smart help system

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 3641-3646

  Ito, Noriko ^a   Sugimoto, Toru ^a   Iwashita, Shino ^a   Kobayashi, Ichiro ^a,b   Sugeno, Michio ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Rhetorical structure; Smart agent; Text planning

Indexed keywords

HELP TEXTS; RHETORICAL STRUCTURE THEORY (RST); SMART AGENTS; TEXT PLANNING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; WORD PROCESSING;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 15744403947     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1400908     Document Type: Conference Paper

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