FYI: New Website/List: RST, TEFL Courses in Russia
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Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) a new website a new discussion group RST is an approach to discovering the linguistic structures of texts. It is part of the study of what and how texts communicate. RST provides an approach to explaining why texts are coherent and arbitrary collections of sentences are no coherent. It also provides a basis for understanding certain kinds of implicit communication. RST is used in computationally in text generation, summarization, indexing and text assessment. A new website devoted to RST and its neighborhood is at: http://www.sil.org/linguistics/RST The website includes an introduction to RST, bibliographies, a resource for people who are analyzing text, published and unpublished analyses of particular texts, ranging from small texts up to a page in size. There are separate bibliographies for linguistic references, computational linguistic references and RST work by the creators of RST. There is also a new email discussion group for discussion of RST and how it relates to other linguistic topics: coherence, implicit communication, pragmatics, discourse linguistics, semantics and other frameworks for understanding text. The group will also discuss computational uses. To sign up to receive the discussions by email and be eligible to submit comments, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG with SUBSCRIBE RSTLIST yourfirstname yourlastname in the body of the message. Use whatever full name form you want people to see. The Address list of RSTlist subscribers will not be made public. The website and list are managed by Bill Mann. He can be reached at Bill_Mann@sil.org. |
