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We introduce a modular, dependency-based formalization of Information Structure (IS) based on Steedman’s prosodic account [1,2]. We state it in terms of Extensible Dependency Grammar (XDG) [3], introducing two new dimensions modeling 1) prosodic structure, and 2) theme/rheme and focus/background partitionings. The approach goes without a non-standard syntactic notion of constituency and can be straightforwardly extended to model interactions between IS and other dimensions such as word order.
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Debusmann, R., Postolache, O., Traat, M. (2005). A Modular Account of Information Structure in Extensible Dependency Grammar. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3406. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30586-6_2
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