An automatic procedure for topic-focus identification
Computational Linguistics
The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization
The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization
Old Linguists Never Die, They Only Get Obligatorily Deleted
Computational Linguistics
A framework for annotating information structure in discourse
CorpusAnno '05 Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotations II: Pie in the Sky
Expanding Topic-Focus Articulation with Boundary and Accent Assignment Rules for Romanian Sentence
TSD '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
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We propose in this paper an implementation of the Prague School's TFA (Topic-Focus Articulation) algorithm to support the Romanian prosody design, relying on the experience with FDG (Functional Dependency Grammar) and SCD (Segmentation-Cohesion-Dependency) parsing strategies for the classical, i.e. predication-driven, but Information Structure (IS) non-dependent, syntax. As contributions worth to be mentioned are: (a) Outlining the functional and hierarchical organization of linguistic markers and structures within SCD and FDG local-global parsing, on both sides of the syntax-prosody interface of Romanian. (b) Pointing out the relationship between classical (IS-free) syntactic structures, IS (topic-focus, communicative dynamism) depending textual spans, and the corresponding prosodic intonational units. (c) Adapting and implementing the TFA algorithm for the first time to Romanian prosodic structures, to be continued with TFA sentence-level refinements, its rhetorical-level extension, and embedding into local-global linking algorithms.