Automatically recognizing the discourse structure of a body of text
CA 2305875 A1 · Owner: De Campos, Miguel Cardoso · Inventors: Corston, Simon; De Campos, Miguel Cardoso
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The present invention is directed to recognizing a discourse structure of a body of text. In a preferred embodiment a discourse structure recognition , facility utilizes syntactic information associated with the body of text to generate a discourse structure tree that characterizes the discourse structure of the body of text. The facility first identifies in the body of text a number of clauses. The facility then determines for each distinct pair of , clauses, which of a number of possible discourse relations should be hypothesized between the pair of clauses based on the syntactic structure and , semantic of the body of text relative to the pair of clauses. The facility then applies …
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- Filed October 15, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 15, 2018.
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