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What We Are Talking about and What We Are Saying about It

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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2008)

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In view of the relationships between theoretical, computational and corpus linguistics, their mutual contributions are discussed and illustrated on the issue of the aspect of language related to the information structure of the sentence, distinguishing ”what we are talking about” and ”what we are saying about it”.

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  1. Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Malostranské nám. 25, 118 00, Prague, Czech Republic

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Hajičová, E. (2008). What We Are Talking about and What We Are Saying about It. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4919. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78135-6_21

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