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  <Title>Transitivity and Foregrounding in News Articles: experiments in information retrieval and automatic summarising</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper describes an on-going study which applies the concept of transitivity to news discourse for text processing tasks.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The complex notion of transitivity is defined and the relationship between transitivity and information foregrounding is explained. A sample corpus of news articles has been coded for transitivity. The corpus is being used in two text processing experiments. null</Paragraph>
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