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  <Title>The Rhetorical Parsing of Natural Language Texts</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We introduced the notion of rhetorical parsing, i.e., the process through which natural language texts are automatically mapped into discourse trees. In order to make rhetorical parsing work, we improved previous algorithms for cue phrase disambiguation, and proposed new algorithms for determining the elementary textual units and for computing the valid discourse trees of a text. The solution that we described is both general and robust.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Acknowledgements. This research would have not been possible without the help of Graeme Hirst; there are no fight words to thank him for it. I am grateful to Melanie Baljko, Phil Edmonds, and Steve Green for their help with the corpus analysis. This research was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.</Paragraph>
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