Manfred Stede

Discourse Processing - Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies Manfred Stede

Discourse Processing here is framed as marking up a text with structural descriptions on several levels, which can serve to support many language-processing or text-mining tasks. This title explores some ways of assigning structure on the document level. The focus then moves to phenomena of local coherence, and the role of connectives and other means of signalling such relations in text.