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  <Title>RSTTool 2.4 - A Markup Tool for Rhetorical Structure Theory</Title>
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7 Summary
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    <Paragraph position="0"> RSTTool is a robust tool which facilitates manual analysis of a text's rhetorical structure. These analyses can be used for a number of purposes, including i) to improve understanding of discourse structure, to aid in either text generation or analysis; ii) diagram preparation, and iii) as a teaching tool.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The main improvement in the latest version of the tool is the statistical analysis interface. Later versions of the.tool will extend oll this aspect, increasing the range of analyses which can be performed on each text, or collection of texts.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Future versions will also add code for automatic structure recognition, using such work ms Marcu's RST recognition tool (Marcu, 1997). While tile author believes that automatic recognition is not yet reliable, integrating such a tool into an R ST Markup  tool allows the recognition software to provide a first draft, which the human editor can correct to their liking. At present, such a mixture of automatic and human-directed mark-up is the best way of achieving accurate mark-up of text structure.</Paragraph>
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