How complex is discourse structure?

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1619-1623

  Egg, Markus ^a   Redeker, Gisela ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY;

DEGREE OF COMPLEXITY; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; LIST STRUCTURES; NUCLEARITY; PARENT STRUCTURE; TREE STRUCTURES;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 84987918783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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