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title = "A Comparative Study of Discourse Signal Proposals in {R}hetorical {S}tructure {T}heory",
author = "Fortalesa, Gabriela and
Souza, Jackson Wilke da Cruz",
editor = "Barbosa, Bryan Khelven da Silva and
Paes, Aline and
Felippo, Ariani Di",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th {B}razilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology",
month = oct,
year = "2026",
address = "Cuiab{\'a}, Mato Grosso, Brazil",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.stil-1.48/",
doi = "10.5753/stil.2026.29419",
pages = "556--561",
abstract = "This paper presents a comparative literature review on the Discourse Signals (DSs) of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) across six languages. The analysis demonstrates that coherence signaling is not universal, depending heavily on linguistic typology and textual modality. It becomes evident that typologically distant languages and new modalities require profound structural, syntactic, and hypertextual adaptations of the theory{'}s original taxonomy."
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%Y Paes, Aline
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[A Comparative Study of Discourse Signal Proposals in Rhetorical Structure Theory](https://aclanthology.org/2026.stil-1.48/) (Fortalesa & Souza, STIL 2026)
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