Transitivity and Foregrounding in News Articles: Experiments in Information Retrieval and Automatic Summarising

This paper describes an on-going study which applies the concept of transitivity to news discourse for text processing tasks. The complex notion of transitivity is defined and the relationship between transitivity and information foregrounding is explained. A sample corpus of news articles has been coded for transitivity. The corpus is being used in two text processing experiments.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Roderick Kay, Ruth Aylett
• Keywords: ACL 1996, ACL 2007, On-going Study, Text Processing, Text Processing Tasks