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# Lynn Carlson

2 paper cards in the Research library · 1994–2001

Lynn Carlson wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 1994–2001, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Daniel Marcu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-marcu/), Elizabeth Cooper, Mary Ellen Okurovsky.

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5029490430) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5029490430) · [1169 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5029490430) · [20 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029490430) — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Lynn+Carlson) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Lynn+Carlson) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Lynn+Carlson) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Lynn+Carlson) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=Lynn+Carlson)

Topics: [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) 1 · [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) 1

## Papers

1. **[Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carlson-2001-building-discourse-tagged-corpus-framework/)** *(2001)* The paper describes how the RST Discourse Treebank was built: 385 American English articles from the Penn Treebank, each annotated with a rhetorical structure tree in Rhetorical Structure Theory.
2. **[Representing Text Meaning for Multilingual Knowledge-Based Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carlson-1994-representing-text-meaning-multilingual-knowledge/)** *(1994)* The Mikrokosmos project defines a text meaning representation (TMR) as its interlingua. A TMR is a frame notation: each clause becomes an instance of an ontology event or property, with slots for time, aspect and polarity, and modifying roles. Pragmatic content sits beside the propositions. Six attitude types…

## Co-authors (5)

- [Daniel Marcu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-marcu/)
- Elizabeth Cooper
- Mary Ellen Okurovsky
- Ronald Dolan
- Steven Maiorano
