%0 Conference Paper %1 luengen_2006 %A Lüngen, Harald %A Puskás, Csilla %A Bärenfänger, Maja %A Hilbert, Mirco %A Lobin, Henning %B FinTAL 2006 %D 2006 %K discourse iuwis-paper %P 245-256 %T Discourse Segmentation of German Written Texts %X Discourse segmentation is the division of a text into minimal discourse segments, which form the leaves in the trees that are used to represent discourse structures. A definition of elementary discourse segments in German is provided by adapting widely used segmentation principles for English minimal units, while considering punctuation, morphology, sytax, and aspects of the logical document structure of a complex text type, namely scientific articles. The algorithm and implementation of a discourse segmenter based on these principles is presented, as well an evaluation of test runs.

@inproceedings{luengen_2006, abstract = {Discourse segmentation is the division of a text into minimal discourse segments, which form the leaves in the trees that are used to represent discourse structures. A definition of elementary discourse segments in German is provided by adapting widely used segmentation principles for English minimal units, while considering punctuation, morphology, sytax, and aspects of the logical document structure of a complex text type, namely scientific articles. The algorithm and implementation of a discourse segmenter based on these principles is presented, as well an evaluation of test runs.}, added-at = {2010-01-20T16:33:25.000+0100}, author = {Lüngen, Harald and Puskás, Csilla and Bärenfänger, Maja and Hilbert, Mirco and Lobin, Henning}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23dc0c19db01afb9c9971af5aab5d81ed/paul}, booktitle = {FinTAL 2006}, interhash = {5ac17985b735267b61de14dbcc533805}, intrahash = {3dc0c19db01afb9c9971af5aab5d81ed}, keywords = {discourse iuwis-paper}, pages = {245-256}, timestamp = {2010-01-20T16:33:26.000+0100}, title = {Discourse Segmentation of German Written Texts}, year = 2006 }