Discourse parsing of sociology dissertation abstracts using decision tree induction

• Main Authors: Ou, Shiyan, Heng, Hui Ying, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian, Khoo, Christopher S. G.
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93813; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7296
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this study, we investigated the use of decision tree induction to parse the macro-level discourse structure of sociology dissertation abstracts. We treated discourse parsing as a sentence categorization task. The attributes used in constructing the dec...