A rule based approach to discourse parsing

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2004 Workshop - 5th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 108-117

  Polanyi, Livia ^a   Culy, Chris ^a   Van Den Berg, Martin ^a   Thione, Gian Lorenzo ^a   Ahn, David ^a  

^a FX PALO ALTO LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYNTACTICS;

DISCOURSE MODELLING; DISCOURSE PARSING; DISCOURSE SEGMENTATION; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; DISCOURSE THEORY; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; REAL APPLICATIONS; ROBUST APPROACHES; RULE-BASED APPROACH; SEMANTICS THEORY;

SEMANTICS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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