Breaking down rhetorical relations for the purpose of analysing discourse structures

Authors:
Jun'ichi Fukumoto;Jun'ichi Tsujii
Affiliations:
Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Manchester, United Kingdom;Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Manchester, United Kingdom
Venue:
COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Year:
1994

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Abstract

In Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) the definitions of some relations are rather vague because they are given on a pragmatic basis. This paper presents another way of seeing the relations which leads to a more precise specification of the relations. The relations are associated with constraints on the semantic relationships between the propositional contents of two clauses, their Modality and Tense/Aspect.