Discourse relation
A discourse relation (or rhetorical relation) is a description of how two segments of discourse are logically connected to one another.
One method of modeling discourse involves a set of concepts that constitute "segmented discourse representation theory" (SDRT).
SDRT
Asher and Lascarides categorize the discourse relations formalized in SDRT into five classes.
Content-level relations
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Text structuring relations
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Divergent relations
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Metatalk relations
See also
Notes and references
Bibliography
- Asher, Nicholas and Alex Lascarides (2003). Logics of Conversation. Studies in Natural Language Processing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-65058-5
- Pitler, Emily and others (2008). "Easily Identifiable Discourse Relations". University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-08-24.
- Grosz, Barbara J. and Candice L. Sidner (1986). "Attention, Intentions, and the Structure of Discourse". Computational Linguistics 12: 175–204. [aka DSM]
- Alistair Knott, 'An Algorithmic Framework for Specifying the Semantics of Discourse Relations', Computational Intelligence 16 (2000).
- Mann, William C. and Sandra A .Thompson (1988). "Rhetorical Structure Theory: A theory of text organization". Text 8: 243–281. [aka RST]
External links
- Rhetorical Structure Theory — RST website, created by William C. Mann, maintained by Maite Taboada
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