This paper establishes a new definitional foundation for Rhetorical Structure Theory. It examines three claims of RST: the predominance of nucleus / satellite structural patterns. The purpose of this paper is to make RST more explicit and thus more usable.
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Rhetorical Strucuture Theory - Toward a Fuctional Theory of Text Organization
This paper establishes a new definitional foundation for Rhetorical Structure Theory. It examines three claims of RST: the predominance of nucleus / satellite structural patterns. The purpose of this paper is to make RST more explicit and thus more usable.
This paper establishes a new definitional foundation for Rhetorical Structure Theory. It examines three claims of RST: the predominance of nucleus / satellite structural patterns. The purpose of this paper is to make RST more explicit and thus more usable.