Title
Document structure
Abstract
We argue the case for abstract document structure as a separate descriptive level in the analysis and generation of written texts. The purpose of this representation is to mediate between the message of a text (i.e., its discourse structure) and its physical presentation (i.e., its organization into graphical constituents like sections, paragraphs, sentences, bulleted lists, figures, and footnotes). Abstract document structure can be seen as an extension of Nunberg's "text-grammar"; it is also closely related to "logical" markup in languages like HTML and LATEX. We show that by using this intermediate representation, several subtasks in language generation and language understanding can be defined more cleanly.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1162/089120103322145315
Computational Linguistics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
language generation,separate descriptive level,bulleted list,discourse structure,graphical constituent,language understanding,abstract document structure,written text,physical presentation,intermediate representation
Journal
29
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
2
34
2.22
References 
Authors
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Richard Power148645.19
Donia Scott263471.58
Nadjet Bouayad-Agha320620.28