The Local Organization of Text.
Penelope Sibun · 1990
In this paper, I present a model of the local organization of extended text. I show that texts with weak rhetorical structure and strong domain structure, such as descriptions of houses, digital circuits, and families, are best analyzed in terms of local domain structure, and argue that 1obal structures that may be inferred from a domain are not always appropriate for constructing descriptions in the domain. I present a system I am implementing that uses short-rasge struteies to organize text, and show how part of a description is organized by these strategies. I also briefly discuss a model of incremental text generation that dovetails with the model of local organization presented here.