Representing discourse coherence: A corpus-based study

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 249-287

  Wolf, Florian ^a,c   Gibson, Edward ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Genetics Department ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES;

ANNOTATED DATABASE; CORPUS-BASED; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; KAPPA VALUES; NATURALLY OCCURRING; WALL STREET JOURNAL;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 33646406015     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0891201054223977     Document Type: Article

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