Local Coherence Analysis in a Multi-Level Approach to Automatic Text Analysis

Abstract

We characterize a text-technological approach to text analysis as combination of a multi-level representation framework and XML-based document pro-cessing techniques. The main advantages of such an approach are the chance to flexibly combine modules for constructing different applications, and the overall robustness resulting from the operational principle of higher-level modules combining the — possibly partial — results of lower-level ones. We illustrate the approach with the specific task of local coherence analysis, i.e. the computation of coherence relations between text spans.