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Analyzing Argumentative Structures in Procedural Texts

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In this short paper, we present the explicative structure as found in procedural texts. We focus in particular on arguments, and show how warnings, a type of arguments, can be extracted.

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  1. IRIT - CNRS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Lionel Fontan & Patrick Saint-Dizier

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  1. Lionel Fontan
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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296, Göteborg, Sweden

    Bengt Nordström  & Aarne Ranta  & 

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Fontan, L., Saint-Dizier, P. (2008). Analyzing Argumentative Structures in Procedural Texts. In: Nordström, B., Ranta, A. (eds) Advances in Natural Language Processing. GoTAL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5221. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85287-2_35

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