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Transitivity and foregrounding in news articles: experiments in information retrieval and automatic summarising

Published: 24 June 1996 Publication History

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This paper describes an on-going study which applies the concept of transitivity to news discourse for text processing tasks. The complex notion of transitivity is defined and the relatioship between transitivity and information foregrounding is explained. A sample corpus of news articles has been coded for transitivity. The corpus is being used in two text processing experiments.

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    ACL '96: Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
    June 1996
    399 pages
    • Program Chairs:
    • Aravind Joshi,
    • Martha Palmer

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    Published: 24 June 1996

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