Identifying Topic and Focus by an Automatic Procedure

Eva Hajičová, Petr Sgall, Hana Skonmalovlá


Abstract
An algorithm for automatic identification of topic and focus of the sentence is presented, based on dependency syntax and using written input, which is much more ambiguous than spoken utterance.
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E93-1022
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Sixth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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April
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1993
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Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Steven Krauwer, Michael Moortgat, Louis des Tombe
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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178–182
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Eva Hajičová, Petr Sgall, and Hana Skonmalovlá. 1993. Identifying Topic and Focus by an Automatic Procedure. In Sixth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 178–182, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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