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In STEDE, M., WANNER, L., HOVY, Eduard, (Eds), Proceedings of the Workshop on Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers at the 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 43-49, August 15 1998. |
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Knowledge about the argumentative structure of scientific articles can, amongst other things, be used to improve automatic abstracts. We argue that the argumentative structure of scientific discourse can be automatically detected because reasoning about problems, research tasks and solutions follows predictable patterns. Certain phrases explicitly mark the rhetorical status (communicative function) of sentences with respect to the global argumentative goal. Examples for such meta-discourse markers are "in this paper, we have presented..." or "however, their method fails to". We report on work in progress about recognizing such meta-comments automatically in research articles from two disciplines: computational linguistics and medicine (cardiology). (AU) |
