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  <Title>COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS OF DISCOURSE IN THE CONTEXT OF MUC-3</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We discussed discourse-related processing in the context of MUC-3 conference . MUC-3 participants exhibited a striking commonality both in their choice of central problems and approaches to their solutions . Three discourse-related tasks, (1) identifying portions of text that describe different domain events, (2) resolving references, and (3) discourse representation, have been identified as crucial not only for MUC but for tex t understanding in general . We compared the approaches of different sites, stressing both similarities an d differences 1 5 MUC-3 participants represented in this paper plan to invest their effort in improving or extending thei r discourse-related capabilities . The identified tasks are both challenging and expensive, in terms of time an d other resources . They involve not only implementation of known techniques, but also extensive original research .</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> 15Space limitations do not allow us to perform a more detailed analyis, but we have included references to the relevan t literature.</Paragraph>
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