Text-level discourse dependency parsing

Sujian Li, Liang Wang, Ziqiang Cao, Wenjie Li

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Abstract

Previous researches on Text-level discourse parsing mainly made use of constituency structure to parse the whole document into one discourse tree. In this paper, we present the limitations of constituency based discourse parsing and first propose to use dependency structure to directly represent the relations between elementary discourse units (EDUs). The state-of-the-art dependency parsing techniques, the Eisner algorithm and maximum spanning tree (MST) algorithm, are adopted to parse an optimal discourse dependency tree based on the arcfactored model and the large-margin learning techniques. Experiments show that our discourse dependency parsers achieve a competitive performance on text-level discourse parsing.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLong Papers
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages25-35
Number of pages11
Volume1
ISBN (Print)9781937284725
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2014
Event52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014 - Baltimore, MD, United States
Duration: 22 Jun 201427 Jun 2014

Conference

Conference52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBaltimore, MD
Period22/06/1427/06/14

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

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