Rhetorical Structure of Business English

[Jelisaveta Safranj]

Dear RSTlist members,

I was encouraged to post a summary of my replies because people often find 
the question when doing a search, but never the answer.

Besides Maite Taboada’s valuable and comprehensive list of references on 
the subject in her reply, here are some additional useful resources:

C.Chiarcos and O.Krasavina: Annotation Guidelines PoCos-Potsdam Conference 
Scheme Draft 
http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~krasavio/annorichtlinien.pdf 
The paper outlines the guidelines for anaphoric annotation applied to the 
RST Discourse Treebank (Carlson et al.2003) and Potsdam Commentary Corpus 
(Stede 2004).

Dan Cristea, Nancy Ide, Daniel Marcu, and Mihai-Valentin Tablan (2000):  
Discourse Structure and Co-Reference: An Empirical Study, in Proceedings  
of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics  
COLING'2000, Luxembourg, July 31-August 4, 2000.
http://thor.info.uaic.ro/~dcristea/publications.html 
 
Cristea, D., N. Ide, and L. Romary (1998), Veins Theory. In: Proceedings 
of 36th  
Annual Meeting of the ACL, p.281–285.
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/papers/coling98.pdf


Tetreault, J. and J. Allen (2003), An Empirical Evaluation of Pronoun  
Resolution and Clausal Structure. Proc. 2003 International. Symposium on 
Reference  
Resolution and Its Applications to Question Answering and Summarization.  
p. 1–8. Venice, Italy.

J.Tetreault,M.Swift,P.Prithviraj,M.Dzikovska, J.Allen (2003): Discourse 
Annotation in the Monroe Corpus
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/www/u/swift/acl04-anno.pdf 

Olga Krasavina (2004): The Use of Third-person Pronouns and Rhetorical  
Structure: A Corpus-oriented Study, In: Proceedings of the 5th Discourse 
anaphora and anaphora  resolution Colloquium (DAARC-2004), Sãn-Miguel. 
Portugal, September 23-24.
http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~krasavio/Daarc04.pdf 

Olga Krasavina (2005), Types of third-person pronouns and salience  
conditions, In: Proc. of the 6th Workshop on Multidisciplinary Approaches  
to DIscourse (MAD05), September 2005, Chorin/Germany

Christian Chiarcos and Olga Krasavina (to appear), A Parametrized Approach 
of Referential Accessibility in Cross-language Evaluation: A Corpus-based  
Study, in: Proc. IV International Contrastive Linguistics Conference  
(ICLC-4), Santiago de Compostela, 20-23 September, 2005

O.Krasavina and M.Busch, A Corpus Method in Studies of Pronominal 
Anaphora: Annotation Requirements and Methodological 
Strategies.In:Proceedings of DIALOG – 2004 Russia
http://www.dialog-21.ru/Archive/2004/Krasavina.htm 

C.Chiarcos and O.Krasavina: Rhetorical Distance Revisited – A Parametrized 
Approach, In: Proceedings of Workshop on Constraints in Discourse, 3-5 
June, 2005, Dortmund,Germany.
http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~krasavio/dortmund.pdf 


Hope that helps,

Jelisaveta