Veins theory: A model of global discourse cohesion and coherence

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1, Issue , 1998, Pages 281-285

  Cristea, Dan ^a   Ide, Nancy ^b   Romary, Laurent ^c  

^a ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

^b VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^c LORIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

CENTERING THEORIES; DISCOURSE INTERPRETATION; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; GENERALISATION; ROMANIANS; SMOOTHNESS INDICES;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 84939922772     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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