Discourse and Dialogue Research: What Infrastructure Do We Need?
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The empirical study of discourse and dialogue is still young, compared to its sister areas of syntax, semantics and lexicography. These other areas have achieved significant new results, based in part on the existence of shared infrastructure, specifically:
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