Representing discourse coherence: A corpus-based analysis

COLING 2004 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Wolf, Florian ^a   Gibson, Edward ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORESTRY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CORPUS-BASED; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; NATURALLY OCCURRING; RELATION-BASED; WALL STREET JOURNAL;

DATA STRUCTURES;

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