TY - CONF T1 - Text Parsing of a Complex Genre T2 - Digital Spectrum: Integrating Technology and Culture - Supplement to the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Electronic Publishing Y1 - 2006 A1 - Lüngen, Harald A1 - Bärenfänger, Maja A1 - Hilbert, Mirco A1 - Lobin, Henning A1 - Puskás, Csilla AB -

A text parsing component designed to be part of a system that assists students in academic reading an writing is presented. The parser can automatically add a relational discourse structure annotation to a scientific article that a user wants to explore. The discourse structure employed is defined in an XML format and is based the Rhetorical Structure Theory. The architecture of the parser comprises preprocessing components which provide an input text with XML annotations on different linguistic and structural layers. In the first version these are syntactic tagging, lexical discourse marker tagging, logical document structure, and segmentation into elementary discourse segments. The algorithm is based on the shift-reduce parser by Marcu (2000) and is controlled by reduce operations that are constrained by linguistic conditions derived from an XML-encoded discourse marker lexicon. The constraints are formulated over multiple annotation layers of the same text.

JA - Digital Spectrum: Integrating Technology and Culture - Supplement to the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Electronic Publishing T3 - ELPUB CY - Bansko, Bulgaria SP - 247-256 J1 - ELPUB2006 ID - oai:elpub.id:242_elpub2006 ER -