In this paper, the authors propose a query focussed summary generation system which is constructed on top of a unique language-independent discourse structure. The discourse structure is comprised of three text representation techniques, namely, Universal Networking Language (UNL), Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) and saṅgatis. The discourse structure is indexed based on a concept called sūtra...

The organization of discourse is multifaceted. Theories that take a single perspective on discourse structure, examining for example only goal satisfaction or textual coherence or ignoring the context in which a text was generated, will fail to identify the full functional significance of the content and organization of text. The task of generating coherent text to meet some communicative inten...

the present paper focused on the sociocultural explanations of rhetorical differences between english and persian and was based on the contrastive genre analysis of applied linguistics research article abstracts in these two languages. the evolutionary nature of research article abstracts was also investigated from 1985 to 2005, in three stages, with a time interval of 10 years. seventy eight r...

Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) (Mann and Thompson 1987), argues that in most coherent discourse, consecutive discourse elements are related by a small set of rhetorical relations. Moreover, RST suggests that the information conveyed in a discourse over and above what is conveyed in its component clauses can be der ived from the rhetorical relation-based structure of the discourse. A large nu...

In the project SemDok (Generic document structures in linearly organised texts) funded by the German Research Foundation DFG, a discourse parser for a complex type (scientific articles by example), is being developed. Discourse parsing (henceforth DP) according to the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) (Mann and Taboada, 2005; Marcu, 2000) deals with automatically assigning a text a tree structu...