Author: Marcu, Daniel
Title: The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization
Description: Cambridge (MA), MIT Press, (2000). orig.cloth. 23x18cm, xx, 248 pp. Textual tables. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction; Theoretical Foundations: The Linguistics of Text Structures; The Mathematics of Text Structures; A Computational Account of the Axiomatization of Valid Text Structures & its Proof Theory; The Rhetorical Parsing of Free Texts: Rhetorical Parsing by Means of Manually Derived Rules; Rhetorical Parsing by Means of Automatically Derived Rules; Summarization: Summarizing Natural Language Texts; Improving Summarization Performance Through Rhetorical Parsing Tuning.

Keywords: Discourse Analysis, Computer Abstracts, Computational, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics Grammar, Natural Language, Rhetorical Parsing, Text Structures, Axiomatization