Identifying Information Structure in Expository Texts
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Identification of ‘information structure’ (organization of information within an utterance) is crucial for processing contextually-appropriate linguistic forms in many NLP systems. This paper presents a theory and a procedure to identify information structure in expository texts in English, and also an evaluation method that is used to validate the results of the identification process for real data.
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