Functional centering - Grounding referential coherence in information structure

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1999, Pages

  Strube, Michael ^a   Hahn, Udo ^b  

^a Department of Computer and Information Science   (United States)

^b Text Understanding Lab ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE LOADS; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; EVALUATION STUDY; FREE WORD ORDER LANGUAGES; FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; FUNCTIONAL MODEL; INFORMATION STRUCTURES; PRONOMINAL ANAPHORA;

EID: 17544398002     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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