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RST, Programs and Tools

Updated October 2000

Part of the purpose of this website is to make it easy for people to experiment with RST. Various sorts of tools can help.

There are several varieties of programs and online aids for using RST:

Tools for analysts. This website benefited from one of these, programmed by Mick O'Donnell. To learn about or download this tool, go here:
RST Tool

Tables for accessing RST relation definitions -- for use in manual analysis of texts.
Relation Lists and Definitions

In addition, there are various kinds of computer programs that have been oriented by RST:

Text Generation Research: (this is on programmed authorship) Several efforts have benefited from the orientation of RST, some following the first published work much more closely than others. To learn about text generation and find a demonstration of text generation on line on the net, go here:
Text Generation .

Text Summarization: there is research that employs RST concepts, and there may be some application programs.

Teaching "rhetoric:" (There are several distinct uses of this term. For this one, think of it as the theory of Freshman English Composition courses.) There is at least one programmed text analyst built using RST as a guide.

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?2000 William Mann

Modified: October 2000