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  <Title>ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF DISCOURSE STRUCTURE AND SEMANTIC DOMAIN</Title>
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5. CONCLUSIONS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The reason for being interested in regularities of * discourse structure, particularly regularities which hold across a number of discourse types, is that they suggest universals of what is often called &amp;quot;mind,&amp;quot; and, more practically, they also suggest features which might be part of systems for language understanding and production.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Indeed Welner (to appear) has constructed a system for the production of explanations of U.S. income tax law based on the transformational theory of explanation discussed in section 2.4. There is, moreover, the possibility of designing meta-systems, which might be programmed to handle a variety of discourse types.</Paragraph>
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