Syntactic simplification and text cohesion

Research on Language and Computation

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-109

  Siddharthan, Advaith ^a  

^a Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaphoric structure; Cue word selection; Determiner choice; Discourse structure; Sentence ordering; Syntactic simplification; Text cohesion

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744782346     PISSN: 15707075     EISSN: 15728706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11168-006-9011-1     Document Type: Article

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