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From rhetorical structures to document structure: Shallow pragmatic analysis for document engineering

<17> This paper builds on previous work, which demonstrated that shallow discourse processing of medical documents could be used to assist document production. More specifically, we investigate how the occurrence of specific expressions in clinical guidelines can characterise their structure and provide feedback to the expert teams producing such documents. Using state-of-the-art RST analysis tools for French and English we analyse the joint contribution of rhetorical structures and deontic expressions to the automatic recognition of core recommendations in clinical guidelines. This work was undertaken in collaboration with the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo and the French National Health Authority (HAS).