(50) An Experimental Discourse Analyzer

	Machine:     PSI-II
	Environment: SIMPOS
	Language:    ESP
	Source Code: 1.0 MB
	Documents:   None

Overview

An experimental system analyzing discourse structures for Japanese text.

Configuration

Function

For building a text processing system, it is important to accumulate linguistic knowledge for discourse analysis of text. In this system, a discourse structure, represented as a binary tree, is analyzed based on the following linguistic knowledge.

Segmentation Rule
Capturing the relations between Japanese surface rhetorical expressions and the global constraints on the discourse structure.
Thinking-flow Rule
Expressing local constraints on the sequence of rhetorical relations and sub-structures.

Reference

Sumita, K., et al., "A Discourse Structure Analyzer for Japanese Text", Proc. Int. Conf. Fifth Generation Computer Systems 1992.

FTP

An Experimental Discourse Analyzer [345K]

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