Richard Power
			    ITRI
		    University of Brighton

"Generating Embedded Discourse Markers from Rhetorical Structure"

Within a sentence, we can use syntactic relations in order to
derive the meaning of a unit from the meanings of its parts.
Above the sentence level, other factors come into play. In
written discourse, punctuation and layout help us to group
sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into sections, so
assigning a hierarchical structure to the text. In addition,
discourse markers (like "in addition") are employed to express
rhetorical relationships that may extend across sentences, or
even across paragraphs.

This talk describes a method for selecting and placing discourse
markers during the planning of texts that express complex embedded
rhetorical structures. I will also demonstrate a simple implementation.
The talk is based on a paper (with the same title) co-authored by
Christy Doran and Donia Scott, which will be presented at EWNLG.