coherence relations between large spans of text

[Anna Kazantseva]

Dear list members,

About ten days ago I have posted a question regarding coherence  
relations for large segments of texts. Here’s the summary of  
responses that I have received. Many thanks to everybody who  
responded and helped me out.

Regards,

Anna



**Schemata (mostly function-based and mostly for stories):
William Labov and Joshua Waletzky. 1967. Narrative analysis. In J.  
Helm (ed.), Essays on the Verbal and Visual Arts. Seattle, U. of  
Washington Press, pp. 12-44.

Wallace Chafe. 1994. Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and  
Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing.  
University of Chicago Press, especially pp. 128-132.

Ruqaiya Hasan. 1996. The nursery tales as a genre. In Ways of saying,  
ways of meaning : selected papers of Ruqaiya Hasan / edited by Carmel  
Cloran, David Butt, and Geoffrey Williams.

Lynn Carlson , Daniel Marcu , Mary Ellen Okurowski, Building a  
discourse-tagged corpus in the framework of Rhetorical Structure  
Theory, Proceedings of the Second SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and  
Dialogue, pp.1-10, September 01-02, 2001, Aalborg, Denmark
Ken Keyes’s work on schemata for psalms.



**Moves analysis:
Douglas Biber, Ulla Connor and Thomas Upton. 2007.  Discourse on the  
Move:

Using Corpus Analysis to Describe Discourse Structure. Amsterdam:  
Benjamins.


**Combining moves analysis with RST analysis:

Modelling Textual Organization project at the University of  
Groningen. http://www.let.rug.nl/mto/



**Other approaches and useful pointers
Wendy G. Lehnert. 1982. Plot Units: A Narrative Summarization  
Strategy. In Wendy G. Lehnert and Martin H. Ringle, editors,  
Strategies for Natural Language Processing, pages 375–414,  
Hillsdale, NJ. Erlbaum.

Dionysis Goutsos. 1997. Modelling discourse topic: sequential  
relations and strategies in expository text. Ablex Publishing  
Corporation.

Michael O'Donnell. 2000. Intermixing Multiple Discourse Strategies  
for Automatic Text Composition. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 
(RCEI), No. 40 (April): Special Issue on Intercultural and  
TextualApproaches to Systemic-Functional Linguistics. http:// 
www.wagsoft.com/Papers/Canaries.pdf

Nicola Stokes.  2004. Applications of Lexical Cohesion Analysis inthe  
Topic Detection and Tracking Domain. Ph.D. Dissertation, University  
College Dublin.

Valery Belyanin. 2006. Psychological Literary Criticism. Text as  
Depiction of the Inner Worlds of Author and Reader (in Russian).  
Moscow, Genesis, 2006.  ISBN 5-98563071-4 ( Белянин В.П.  
Психологическое литературоведение.  
Текст как отражение внутренних миров  
автора и читателя: Монография. – М.:  
Генезис, 2006. – 320 с.)
Event-sequence-driven frames used in Message Understanding Conferences

Ph.D. Dissertation of Juliano Desiderato Antonio (in Brazilian  
Portuguese). Contact the author to obtain it.




  
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