Applications of Rhetorical Structure Theory
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چکیده
Rhetorical Structure Theory is a theory of text organization that has led to areas of application beyond discourse analysis and text generation, its original goals. In this paper, we review the most important applications in several areas: discourse analysis, theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics. We also provide a list of resources useful for work within the RST framework. The present paper is a complement to our review of the theoretical aspects of the theory (Taboada and Mann, 2005).
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