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# William C. Mann

2 paper cards in the Research library · 1981–1988

William C. Mann wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 1981–1988, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/); often with James A. Moore, Sandra A. Thompson.

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

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

## Papers

1. **[Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/enud-1988-mann-rhetorical-structure-theory-functional/)** *(1988)* Not read: this card is written from what is reliably known about the paper, and every idea is marked to check against the text.
2. **[Computer Generation of Multiparagraph English Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mann-1981-computer-generation-multiparagraph-english-text/)** *(1981)* The paper argues that multi-sentence text should not be produced by cutting a knowledge base into sentence-sized pieces (the "Partitioning" paradigm), because real knowledge bases have no boundary marks and no adjacency for that.

## Co-authors (2)

- James A. Moore
- Sandra A. Thompson