@inproceedings{f95fd5ae902244e19a8f1ebeb57878c7,
title = "Beyond Elaboration: The Interaction of Relations and Focus in Coherent Text",
abstract = "This paper outlines a number of problems with RST's ELABORATION relation, and discusses a new model of text structure that results from leaving this relation out of the set of relations. In this model, trees of interclausal/intersentential relations account for the local coherence of a text, while its global coherence is accounted for by a separate device: global focus. ",
keywords = "coherent text, elaboration relation, particular unit, independent unit, particular relations, text structure, many dierent way, local coherence, basic motivation, global coherence, separate device, interclausal intersentential relation, text span, new model, text unit, discourse, propose, introduction many theory, global focus",
author = "Alistair Knott and Jon Oberlander and Michael O'Donnell and Chris Mellish",
year = "2000",
language = "English",
isbn = "9027297673",
series = "Human Cognitive Processing",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "181--196",
editor = "Ted Sanders and Joost Schilperoord and Wilbert Spooren",
booktitle = "Text Representation: Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects, chapter 7",
}