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Attribution is a phenomenon of great interest and a principled treatment is important beyond the realm of newspaper articles. The way natural language has evolved to reflect our understanding of attribution in the form of reported speech can guide investigations into principled representations forming the basis for shallow text mining as well as belief revision or maintenance.
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Bergler, S. (2006). Conveying Attitude with Reported Speech. In: Shanahan, J.G., Qu, Y., Wiebe, J. (eds) Computing Attitude and Affect in Text: Theory and Applications. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4102-0_2
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