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  <Title>Syntactic Identification of Attribution in the RST Treebank</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We present a system that automatically identifies Attribution, an intra-sentential relation in the RST Treebank. The system uses uses syntactic information from Penn Treebank parse trees. It identifies Attributions as structures in which a verb takes an SBAR complement, and achieves a f-score of .92. This supports our claim that the Attribution relation should be eliminated from a discourse treebank, since it represents information that is already present in the Penn Treebank, in a different form. More generally, we suggest that intra-sentential relations in the RST Treebank might all be eliminable in this way.</Paragraph>
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