In:Discourse Topics
Richard Watson Todd
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 269] 2016
► pp. 49–65
Chapter 3Identifying topics
Published online: 24 November 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.269.c3
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.269.c3
Article outline
- 3.1How to express topics
- 3.2Sentence topics and discourse topics
- 3.3Identifying topics in discourse
- 3.4Ways of identifying topics
- 3.4.1Word frequencies for topic identification
- 3.4.2Lexical chaining
- 3.4.3Text-specific hierarchies
- 3.4.4Text-specific networks of associations
- 3.4.5Combining sentence topics
- 3.5Conclusion
