Before the 1988 RST paper

The definitive paper on RST is still the one in Text 8 (3). When it was being prepared, based on a prior ISI report, we had to shorten it for publication at the insistence of the editor, primarily by deleting the following kinds of material:

  • review and credit to prior work,
  • explanations of examples,
  • a section on terminology,

    • As a result, significant parts of pages 26 - 35 were dropped, and pages 38 through 79 of the report were represented by 10 much smaller pages. An Appendix on terminology was dropped completely.

    Here are the deleted portions, in scanned images of the ISI report, ISI-RS-87-190, June 1987, starting with the table of contents and then proceeding to page 38 and following. The median image size is about 60K bytes.


    Note: In order to allow timely release of this website, some of these 50+ page images did not appear when the rest of the website was released. The set of pages is now complete here.

    Item, with Report page number
    Topic and Link
    Title Page title page
    Table of Contents - v. toc 1
    Table of Contents - vi. toc 2
    Page 26 Multiple Analyses
    Page 28 Ambiguity, Simultaneous Analyses
    Page 29 Differences Between Analysts
    Page 30 contd.
    Page 34 Discontinuous Parts
    Page 35 Multinuclear
    Page 38 Relation to Prior work
    Page 39 Interclausal Relation Precedents
    Page 40 Grimes and related work
    Page 41 Grimes contd.
    Page 42 Grosz and Sidner
    Page 43 G & S contd.
    Page 44 G & S contd.
    Page 45 Martin's Conjunctive Relations
    Page 46 Jordan, Conclusions
    Page 47 Conclusions contd.
    Page 48 Appendix 1 begins:
    Page 49 Relation
    Page 50 Definitions
    Page 51 with
    Page 52 discussion
    Page 53 of
    Page 54 the
    Page 55 examples.
    Page 56 ===
    Page 57 Cause relations
    Page 58 contd.
    Page 59 contd.
    Page 60 contd.
    Page 61 contd.
    Page 62 contd.
    Page 63 contd.
    Page 64 contd.
    Page 65 Condition
    Page 66 contd.
    Page 67 contd.
    Page 68 contd.
    Page 69 Interpretation
    Page 70 Evaluation
    Page 71 Restatement
    Page 72 Summary
    Page 73 Multi Nuclear relations
    Page 74 contd.
    Page 75 Contrast
    Page 76 contd.
    Page 77 contd.
    Page 78 An Appendix
    on Terminology
    Page 79 contd., References
    Page 80 contd.
    Page 81 contd.
    Page 82 contd.
    Note also that although the full report was expected to appear in an edited book, The Structure of Discourse, Livia Polanyi, ed., that book was never published. It should not be referenced.