Editing Topic and comment (section)

== Practical applications ==
The main application of the topic-comment structure is in the domain of speech technology, especially the design of embodied conversational agents (intonational focus assignment, relation between information structure and posture and gesture).<ref>Cassell, Justine, ed. Embodied conversational agents. MIT press, 2000.</ref> There were some attempts to apply the theory of topic/comment for information retrieval<ref>A. Bouchachia and R. Mittermeir, “A neural cascade architecture for
document retrieval,” in Neural Networks, 2003. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on, vol. 3. IEEE, 2003, pp. 1915–1920.</ref> and automatic summarization.<ref>L. Ermakova, J. Mothe, A. Firsov. A Metric for Sentence Ordering Assessment Based on Topic-Comment.
Structure, in ACM SIGIR, Tokyo, Japan, 07/08/2017-11/08/2017</ref>