The theory and practice of discourse parsing and summarization /

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Author / Creator:Marcu, Daniel.
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.
Description:xviii, 248 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4386230
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ISBN:0262133725 (alk. paper)
Notes:"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-241) and indexes.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • I. Theoretical Foundations
  • 2. The Linguistics of Text Structures
  • 3. The Mathematics of Text Structures
  • 4. A Computational Account of the Axiomatization of Valid Text Structures and its Proof Theory
  • 5. Discussion
  • II. The Rhetorical Parsing of Free Texts
  • 6. Rhetorical Parsing by Means of Manually Derived Rules
  • 7. Rhetorical Parsing by Means of Automatically Derived Rules
  • 8. Discussion
  • III. Summarization
  • 9. Summarizing Natural Language Texts
  • 10. Improving Summarization Performance through Rhetorical Parsing Tuning
  • 11. Discussion.