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<Paper uid="H93-1031">
  <Title>DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING OF A DISCOURSE MODEL FOR NEWSPAPER TEXTS</Title>
  <Section position="12" start_page="162" end_page="162" type="concl">
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8. CONCLUSIONS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Although we are clearly in the early stages of development of the Text Structurer, we find these results quite promising and are eager to share our empirical results and experiences in creating an operational system with other computational linguists. To our knowledge, no similar, operational discourse structuring system has yet been reported in the literature.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We have applied the newspaper text-type model to text from a different source, by coding a sample of AP Newswire articles. This effort verified that the model was general enough to handle news text from various sources; in fact, a subset of the model covered all cases seen in the AP text.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> We are in the process of evaluating the latest version of the Text Structurer based on the current newspaper text model. We will next apply a similar methodology to the development of a model and processing component for automatically structuring full-length, technical journal articles.</Paragraph>
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