A surface-based approach to identifying discourse markers and elementary textual units in unrestricted texts. Marcu, D. In Proceedings, COLING/ACL'98 Workshop on Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers, pages 1–7, Montreal, QC, August, 1998.
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I present a surface-based algorithm that employs knowledge of cue phrase usages in order to determine automatically clause boundaries and discourse markers in unrestricted natural language texts. The knowledge was derived from a comprehensive corpus analysis.
@InProceedings{	  marcu6,
  author	= {Daniel Marcu},
  title		= {A surface-based approach to identifying discourse markers
		  and elementary textual units in unrestricted texts},
  booktitle	= {Proceedings, COLING/ACL'98 Workshop on Discourse Relations
		  and Discourse Markers},
  address	= {Montreal, QC},
  month		= {August},
  year		= {1998},
  pages		= {1--7},
  abstract	= {I present a surface-based algorithm that employs knowledge
		  of cue phrase usages in order to determine automatically
		  clause boundaries and discourse markers in unrestricted
		  natural language texts. The knowledge was derived from a
		  comprehensive corpus analysis.},
  download	= {http://www.isi.edu/~marcu/papers/markers-units98.ps}
}

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