From discourse structures to text summaries

We describe experiments that show that the concepts of rhetorical analysts and nucleanty can be used effectively for deternumng the most nnportant umts m a text We show how these concepts can be xmplemented and we discuss results that we obtained with a chscourse-based summanzatmn program

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