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Hi Jelisaveta,<br>
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I don't know if you have received any private replies to your question
(if so, could you post a summary?). Here are some ideas.<br>
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The corpus built by Marcu and colleagues would be a very useful resource.
It contains Wall Street Journal articles, annotated with RST relations.
The corpus is available for purchase (USD $100) from the Linguistic Data
Consortium:<br>
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<a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2002T07" eudora="autourl">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2002T07</a><br>
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A number of publications describe the annotation process. Although you
may be more interested in the analysis of the texts themselves, the
publications provide some insights into the types of RST relations found.
Most of them are available from Daniel Marcu's page:
<a href="http://www.isi.edu/~marcu/" eudora="autourl">http://www.isi.edu/~marcu/</a>
Also, most ACL-related publications can be found in the ACL Anthology:
<a href="http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/" eudora="autourl">http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/<br>
</a>
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<dd> Carlson, Lynn and Daniel Marcu (2001) <i>Discourse
Tagging Manual</i>. Unpublished manuscript,
<a href="http://www.isi.edu/~marcu/discourse/tagging-ref-manual.pdf" eudora="autourl">http://www.isi.edu/~marcu/discourse/tagging-ref-manual.pdf</a>.
<dd> Carlson, Lynn, Daniel Marcu and Mary Ellen Okurowski
(2003) Building a discourse tagged corpus in the framework of Rhetorical
Structure Theory. In J. van Kuppevelt and R. Smith (Eds.), <i>Current and
New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue</i> (pp. 85-112). Berlin:
Springer.
<dd> Marcu, Daniel, Magdalena Romera and Estibaliz Amorrortu
(1999) Experiments in constructing a corpus of discourse trees,
<i>Proceedings of ACL Workshop on Standards and Tools for Discourse
Tagging</i> (pp. 48-57). College Park, Maryland.
<dd> Soricut, Radu and Daniel Marcu (2003) Sentence level
discourse parsing using syntactic and lexical information, <i>Proceedings
of Human Language Technology and North American Association for
Computational Linguistics Conference (HLT-NAACL'03)</i>. Edmonton,
Canada.<br>
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</dl>There is also work on annotating Wall Street Journal articles using
a different approach:<br>
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<dd> Wolf, Florian and Edward Gibson (2005) Representing
discourse coherence: A corpus-based analysis. <i>Computational
Linguistics, 31</i> (2): 249-287.<br>
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</dl>I found a reference to business genres and RST in my bibliography.
It's business letters, not articles, but just in case:<br>
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<dd> Kong, Kenneth C. C. (1998) Are simple business request
letters really simple? A comparison of Chinese and English business
request letters. <i>Text, 18</i> (1): 103-141.<br>
<br>
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</dl>Finally, I've done an analysis of the use of discourse markers in a
subset of the RST corpus:<br>
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<dd> Taboada, Maite (2006) Discourse markers as signals (or
not) of rhetorical relations. <i>Journal of Pragmatics, 38</i> (4):
567-592.<br>
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</font>
</dl>You can also consult the RST bibliographies on the RST web site:
<a href="http://www.sfu.ca/rst/05bibliographies/index.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.sfu.ca/rst/05bibliographies/index.html</a><br>
<br>
Hope that helps,<br>
<br>
- Maite<br>
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At 17:22 17/07/2006 +0200, Jelisaveta Safranj wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>Dear RST
list,</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>I am working on a PhD project on
"Rhetorical Structure of Business English" ( based on a corpus
of online articles from <i>The Financial Times</i> ). I wonder if anyone
is aware of other studies using RST in business English newspaper
articles?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>I'd be very grateful if you could send me some
references if you know of research that might be related to mine, So far
I am aware of general papers on the subject of discourse segmentation
(Mann and Thompson, Grosz and Sidner, Moore and Pollack ); but wonder if
there are papers dealing with the business genre
specifically.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Thanks for any advice.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Jelisaveta</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Jelisaveta Safranj, MA</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Senior lecturer in English
language</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Faculty of Technical Sciences</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Trg Dositeja Obradovica 6</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>University of Novi Sad</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Novi Sad, Serbia</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>e-mail:
savetas@uns.ns.ac.yu</font></blockquote>
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Simon Fraser University<br>
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