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Discourse Structure Rosenberg, Steven T. An essential step in understanding connected discourse is the ability to link the meanings of successive sentences together. Given a growing database to which new sentence meanings must be linked, which out of many possible inference chains will succeed? To which items already in a data base is a new item relevent? To assure easy understandability of text the amount of processing time spent on unsuccessful linkage attempts must be reduced. This paper d...