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  <Title>Transitivity and Foregrounding in News Articles: experiments in information retrieval and automatic summarising</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> proper common human, animate inanimate concrete abstract singular plural count mass referential, definite non-referential Based on these components, clauses can be classified as more or less transitive. In English, as a whole, transitivity is indicated by a cluster of features associated with a clause. The concept of foreground and background information is based on the idea that in narrative discourse some parts are more essential than others. Certain sections of a narrative are crucially linked with the temporal sequence of events which form the backbone of a text. This material is normally foregrounded. In contrast, the contextual information relating to characters and environment is backgrounded. null</Paragraph>
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