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Processing Text-Technological Resources in Discourse Parsing

TitleProcessing Text-Technological Resources in Discourse Parsing
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsLobin H, Lüngen H, Hilbert M, Bärenfänger M
EditorMehler A, Kühnberger K-U, Lobin H, Lüngen H, Storrer A, Witt A
Book TitleModeling, Learning, and Processing of Text Technological Data Structures
Series TitleStudies in Computational Intelligence
Volume370
Pagination35-58
PublisherSpringer
CityBerlin / Heidelberg
ISBN Number978-3-642-22612-0
Abstract

Discourse parsing of complex text types such as scientific research articles requires the analysis of an input document on linguistic and structural levels that go beyond traditionally employed lexical discourse markers. This chapter describes a text-technological approach to discourse parsing. Discourse parsing with the aim of providing a discourse structure is seen as the addition of a new annotation layer for input documents marked up on several linguistic annotation levels. The discourse parser generates discourse structures according to the Rhetorical Structure Theory. An overview of the knowledge sources and components for parsing scientific journal articles is given. The parser’s core consists of cascaded applications of the GAP, a Generic Annotation Parser . Details of the chart parsing algorithm are provided, as well as a short evaluation in terms of comparisons with reference annotations from our corpus and with recently developed systems with a similar task.

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-22613-7_3