Rhetorical structure theory: A comprehensive review of theory, parsing methods and applications

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Highlights：

• A comprehensive introduction of rhetorical structure theory (RST).

• A snapshot and some statistical data of RST-DT.

• An elaboration of the classical and latest RST parsing methods.

• Applications of RST, especially in expert and intelligent systems.

• Comparisons with other discourse structure theories.

摘要

•A comprehensive introduction of rhetorical structure theory (RST).•A snapshot and some statistical data of RST-DT.•An elaboration of the classical and latest RST parsing methods.•Applications of RST, especially in expert and intelligent systems.•Comparisons with other discourse structure theories.

论文关键词：Rhetorical structure theory,Discourse structure,RST parsing,Machine learning,Natural language processing,Text summarization

论文评审过程：Received 31 March 2019, Revised 27 February 2020, Accepted 26 March 2020, Available online 4 May 2020, Version of Record 8 May 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113421