Generating Embedded Discourse Markers from Rhetorical Structure

To understand a discourse the reader needs to recover the relations between the discourse elements as intended by the writer Writers can and very often do help the reader along by providing explicit lexical signals of the intended discourse relations through the use of lexicalised discourse markers In this paper we present a novel approach for generating texts containing multiple embedded rhetorical relations each of which is lexically marked Our analysis inte grates syntactic factors ideas from rhetorical structure theory notions of text grammar and ndings from psycholinguistic research into a uni ed feature based account The current im plementation allows us to generate several good variants of text structures containing multiple discourse relations while blocking dispreferred variants