Applications of rhetorical structure theory

Discourse Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 567-588

  Taboada, Maite ^a   Mann, William C ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Simon Fraser University ^*

Author keywords

Argumentation; Coherence relations; Computational linguistics; Corpus analysis; Cross linguistic discourse analysis; Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746177665     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445606064836     Document Type: Review

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