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[Potter, Andrew Nelson]

David,
Opinions will no doubt vary.  My favorite reads continue to be:

Mann, W. C., & Thompson, S. A. (1988). Rhetorical structure theory: Towards a functional theory of text organization. Text, 8(3), 243-281.

Mann, W. C., Matthiessen, C. M. I. M., & Thompson, S. A. (1992). Rhetorical structure theory and text analysis. In W. C. Mann & S. A. Thompson (Eds.), Discourse description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text (pp. 39-78). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
And this Report is sometimes treated as authoratative.

Mann, W. C., & Thompson, S. A. (1987). Rhetorical structure theory: A theory of text organization (ISI/RS-87-190). Retrieved from Marina del Rey, CA
Also, going beyond Mann and Thompson, Marcu’s work is of interest:

Marcu, D. (2000). The theory and practice of discourse parsing and summarization. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Carlson, L., Marcu, D., & Okurowski, M. E. (2003). Building a discourse-tagged corpus in the framework of rhetorical structure theory. In J. v. Kuppevelt & R. Smith (Eds.), Current Directions in Discourse and Dialogue. Berlin: Springer.

Regards,
  Andrew

--
Andrew Potter, PhD
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Information Systems
University of North Alabama



On September 5, 2017 at 5:59:25 PM, David Weber (david_weber at sil.org<mailto:david_weber at sil.org>) wrote:

Decades ago I interacted with Bill Mann and others at ISI when RST was being born. I followed it for several years but my work took me in in other directions.  Now I'd like to catch up. What would be the best way to do so? I did poke arround in the RST website --and  was very pleased to see that Bill's ideas have yielded such fruit!-- but I didn't find a good introduction (like one I could share with students).  Maybe I just missed it? ...or perhaps there are a few key papers I should read?

Best, --David Weber
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