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  <Title>Recognition of the Coherence Relation between Te-linked Clauses</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> One of the basic requirements for understanding discourse is recognizing how each clause coheres with its predecessor. Our linguistic and pragmatic competence enables us to read in conceivable relations even when two clauses are copresent without any overt cues, i.e., in parataxis.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> There has been a variety of definitions for coherence relations (see (Hovy and Maier, 1993) for a survey). However, the definitions are rather vague and they are often recognized to be underspecified (Moore and Pollack, 1992; Fukumoto and Tsujii, 1994). This paper attempts to explicate how such coherence relations arise between segments of discourse. We focus on re-linkage in Japanese -- a translational equivalent of English and-linkage, since mere parataxis ranges over too widely to capture the underlying principles on the coherence relations.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> We consider that coherence relations are categories each of which has its prototypical instances and marginal ones. As with all instances of categorizations, the prototypical cases of each relation are clearly distinguishable from one another. In some cases, however, it is often hard to make clear argument for a relation being one rather than another.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> In addition, these relations themselves are hierarchically organized according to their specificity. By considering the prototype of each relation, we can infer an appropriate relation from the semantic structures of the segments between which that relation holds.</Paragraph>
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