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  <Title>The Computation of the Informational Status of Discourse Entities</Title>
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4. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> I have introduced a cognitively oriented approach for modelling a phenomenon within the processes of information structuring, namely the informational status of discourse entities.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Information structuring creates conditions for producing the most felicitous utterance within the set of all possible utterances. One important parameter of information structuring is the informational status. This value is expressed by different means in different languages for marking verbalized entities in a felicitous way, i.e. so that the hearer gets the intended reference. Hence, a precise computation of the informational status is a crucial subprocess within the whole process of utterance production. Accordingly, I have described and illustrated an implemented algorithm based on a detailed representation of context.</Paragraph>
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