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William C. "Bill" Mann (died August 13, 2004, aged 69) was a computer scientist and computational linguist, the originator of rhetorical structure theory (RST) and a president of the Association for Computational Linguistics (1987–1988). He is especially well known for his work in text generation.

He received a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and computer science at Carnegie Mellon University under Herbert Simon and Allen Newell.

From the mid-1970s until 1990, he was a researcher at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California. From 1990 to 1996, he was a consultant with the Summer Institute of Linguistics, based in Nairobi.

William C. Mann died on August 13, 2004, after a long struggle with leukemia.

Publications

• William C. Mann and Sandra A. Thompson, "Rhetorical structure theory: toward a functional theory of text organization", Text 8:243-281 (1988).
• Maite Taboada, William C. Mann, "Applications of Rhetorical Structure Theory", Discourse Studies 8:3:567-588 (2006)

Notes

1. "View William Mann's Obituary on Charlotte.com and share memories". www.legacy.com.
2. "Presidents since Inception". www.aclweb.org.
3. Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M. (2005). "Remembering Bill Mann". Computational Linguistics. 31 (2): 161–171. doi:10.1162/0891201054224002. S2CID 19688915.

Bibliography

• Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, "Remembering Bill Mann", Computational Linguistics 31:2:161-171

External links

• Bibliography of publications and reports by the creators of RST

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