Automatic multi-document summarization aims at selecting the essential content of related documents and presenting it in a summary. In this paper, we propose some methods for automatic summarization based on Rhetorical Structure Theory and Cross-document Structure Theory. They are chosen in order to properly address the relevance of information, multidocument phenomena and subtopical distributi...

Causal networks have been successfully used to explain the process of narrative comprehension in humans (Trabasso et al., 1989). This motivated their use in the automatic creation of fairy tales (Swartjes and Theune, 2006; Theune et al., 2007). Some have suggested that causal relations also play an important role in improving narrative generation from real-life temporal data (Hunter et al., 201...

summarization is defined as " The process of concisely restating the essential ideas of a text or passage, and synthesizing the ideas into an overarching, idea ". There is an increasing need of coming up with ideas that can perfectly generate summaries as there is large repository of data present online but to get to the right information is indeed very difficult. In order to achieve this task ...

Observation of writers producingg non-trivial texts suggests t hat most spendd time generating andd organisingg content prior to draftingg full text. Resear chsuggests a linkk between time spent inn these activities andd the quality of the resulting docume nt. Very little is known, however, about either the nature of the representation that is c reatedd during this planningg phase (the writer's...

This comparative study aimed at finding out the types of grammatical shifts which have occurred in two English translations of the Quranic rhetorical questions, and the impact of such shifts on the said rhetorical questions. For these purposes, the study firstly analyzed the Arabic and English texts syntactically using the x-bar theory for Haegeman (2006) and then classified the grammatical shi...

In this paper, we discuss dependencies between rhetorical discourse structure and relevance implicatures. We follow [3] and infer relevance implicatures from the assumption that an answer provides optimal information for solving an explicitly or implicitly given decision problem of the inquirer. Such a decision problem can be identified with a question raised in the conversation. Background que...

before a president practically begins his four-year term of office in iran, a formal inaugural ceremony is held in the parliament. being attended by national dignitaries and representatives from other countries, the inauguration of iran's seventh president, hasan rouhani, was spectacular in several respects. the current study aimed at investigating the generic structure and rhetorical move...

This thesis is an inquiry into the nature of the high-level, rhetorical structure of unrestricted natural language texts, computational means to enable its derivation, and two applications (in automatic summarization and natural language generation) that follow from the ability to build such structures automatically. The thesis proposes a rst-order formalization of the high-level, rhetorical st...

The IMAGENE project has studied the expression of actions in the context of instructional text generation. The approach employs a rather traditional interpretation of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) (Mann and Thompson, 1989), using it both as a descriptive tool and as a constructive tool (Mann and Thompson, 1987). No explicit representation of and reasoning about intentions was employed. In t...

This paper presents a study in sentiment analysis which exploits information of the relational discourse structure in a Basque corpus consisting of literature reviews. The QWN-PPV method was employed to label all the texts at element level and the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) was used to extract discourse structure information. The preliminary results show that discourse structure is effec...