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The paper describes a method of dividing complex sentences into segments, easily detectable and linguistically motivated units that may be subsequently combined into clauses and thus provide a structure of a complex sentence with regard to the mutual relationship of individual clauses. The method has been developed for Czech as a language representing languages with relatively high degree of word-order freedom. The paper introduces important terms, describes a segmentation chart, the data structure used for the description of mutual relationship between individual segments and separators. It also contains a simple set of rules applied for the segmentation of a small set of Czech sentences. The segmentation results are evaluated against a small hand-annotated corpus of Czech complex sentences.
This paper is a result of the project supported by the grant No. 1ET100300517.
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Kuboň, V., Lopatková, M., Plátek, M., Pognan, P. (2006). Segmentation of Complex Sentences. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4188. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11846406_19
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