Disambiguating rhetorical structure
- Empirical studies of text coherence often use tree-like structures in the spirit of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) as representational device. This paper identifies several sources of ambiguity in RST-inspired trees and argues that such structures are therefore not as explanatory as a text representation should be. As an alternative, an approach toward multi-level annotation (MLA) of texts is proposed, which separates the information into distinct levels of representation, in particular: referential structure, thematic structure, conjunctive relations, and intentional structure. Levels are conceptually built upon each other, and human annotators can produce them using a dedicated software environment. We argue that the resulting multi-level corpora are descriptively more adequate, and as a resource are more useful than RST-style treebanks.
Author details: | Manfred StedeORCiDGND |
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URL: | http://www.springerlink.com/content/111138 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11168-008-9053-7 |
ISSN: | 1570-7075 |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2008 |
Publication year: | 2008 |
Release date: | 2017/03/25 |
Source: | Research on language and computation. - ISSN 1570-7075. - 6 (2008), 3-4, S. 311 - 332 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
Peer review: | Nicht referiert |