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  <Title>CUSTOMIZING AND EVALUATING A MULTILINGUAL DISCOURSE MODULE</Title>
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1 INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Although previous discourse rese,'uch (cf Hobbs \[7\], Webber 191, Grosz mid Sidner 16/, etc.) made significant contributions at a theorelic~d level, the effectiveness of discourse processing in NLP systems h~s not been studied so Ira' at a practical level (of. Walker \[8\]). In systems used in NLP applications such us the Message Underst,'ulding Conferences (of. 14, 5 I), discourse processing is often not a sep~u'ate module hut is pmt mid proeel of &amp;quot;template generation.&amp;quot; Thus, the eflbct of different types of discourse processing on a pm'liculm&amp;quot; task has not been shown either.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In addition, both at Iheoretical and practical levels, few seem to have considered designing discourse processing in a way that is customizable for multiple languages and domains. However, since discourse phenomena differ mnong Imlguages mid even among domains within the same language, it ix desirable that discourse processing be custonfizahle and its result ewduable.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> In this paper, we descril)e how we have customized our multilingual discourse module wilhin our tcxl understanding system for a pm'ticulm&amp;quot; I~mk (i.e. data exla'action in the joint venture domain) in two different lmlguagcs (i.e.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> English mid Japanese), mid report the cwduation rcsul|s.</Paragraph>
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