Textbooks as a research challenge in computational linguistics
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As they are devised to fulfil pedagogical needs, textbooks often rely on illustrations as well as text proper. Thus, the relationship between illustration and text has to be accounted for (Peraya & Nyssen, 1995; Reinwein, 1998). Being directed towards pupils and eliciting actual responses, textbooks also challenge text linguistics. The study of the various means for establishing relations with the readers cannot be postponed, although problems arising from the text itself are deemed difficult enough.
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