A Discourse Grammar for Processing Arguments in Context
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چکیده
In this paper, we develop a linguistic and conceptual analysis of argument coumpounds, i.e. groups of closely related arguments and their related contexts expressed by means of discourse relations. An implementation in Dislog is presented with an indicative evaluation of the results.
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