Manually annotating the rhetorical structure of texts is very labour-intensive. At the same time, high-quality automatic analysis is currently out of reach. We thus propose to split the manual annotation in two phases: the simpler marking of lexical connectives and their relations, and the more difficult decisions on overall tree structure. To this end, we developed an environment of two analysis tools and XML-based declarative resources. Our ConAno tool allows for efficient, interactive annotation of connectives, scopes and relations. This intermediate result is exported to O'Donnell's 'RST Tool', which facilitates completing the tree structure.
We combine a surface based approach to discourse parsing with an explicit rhetorical grammar in order to efficiently construct an underspecified representation of possible discourse structures.
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