Choosing Rhetorical Structures to Plan Instructional Texts

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Choosing Rhetorical Structures to Plan Instructional Texts (1998)

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by Leila Kosseim , Guy Lapalme

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@MISC{Kosseim98choosingrhetorical,
    author = {Leila Kosseim and Guy Lapalme},
    title = {Choosing Rhetorical Structures to Plan Instructional Texts},
    year = {1998}
}

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Abstract

This paper discusses a fundamental problem in text generation: how to select the content to communicate and how to present it in a coherent text. In this research, we set out to determine automatically the semantic content and the rhetorical structure of French instructional texts. To do so, we performed a corpus analysis in order to capture natural linguistic phenomena. From the corpus analysis we determined 9 semantic carriers typically communicated in instructional texts and 7 rhetorical relations used to present them. From this analysis, we then developed 2 sets of heuristics: content heuristics that determine what semantic carriers should be communicated in the text and presentation heuristics that determine how the semantic carriers should be organized rhetorically in order to create a coherent and natural text. These heuristics are based on 5 types of constraints: conceptual, semantic, rhetorical, pragmatic and intentional constraints. In order to verify these heuristics, we dev...

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rhetorical structure plan instructional text semantic carrier corpus analysis french instructional text text generation semantic content natural linguistic phenomenon intentional constraint instructional text presentation heuristic coherent text fundamental problem natural text rhetorical relation content heuristic

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