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Publication details [#23013]
Broek, Paul van den and Tom Trabasso. 1986. Causal networks versus goal hierarchies in summarizing text. Discourse Processes 9 (1) : 1–15. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Annotation
An analysis of the importance of statements in texts. The notion of importance is operationalized in terms of a statement's being included in a summary. The analysis contrasts two approaches to story understanding: hierarchical versus causal.