The Representation Of Interdependencies Between Communicative Goals And Rhetorical Relations In The Framework Of Multimedia Document Generation
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This paper briefly outlines observa.tions fi'om texts made with respect to rhetorical relations and communicative goals. Then it will be shown how these ol)servations have been encoded into knowledge resources which are part of an integrated architecture for the gelmration of multimedia output. Both communicative goals and rhetorical relations are virtual constructs surface signals hint at their existence. In the following we briefly discuss the various linguistic means by which both rhetorical relations and communicative goals are signaled in texts.
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