Revisiting Shallow Discourse Parsing in the PDTB-3: Handling Intra-sentential Implicits

Zheng Zhao, Bonnie Webber


Abstract
In the PDTB-3, several thousand implicit discourse relations were newly annotated within individual sentences, adding to the over 15,000 implicit relations annotated across adjacent sentences in the PDTB-2. Given that the position of the arguments to these intra-sentential implicits is no longer as well-defined as with inter-sentential implicits, a discourse parser must identify both their location and their sense. That is the focus of the current work. The paper provides a comprehensive analysis of our results, showcasing model performance under different scenarios, pointing out limitations and noting future directions.
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2021.codi-main.10
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Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse
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November
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2021
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Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and Online
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Chloé Braud, Christian Hardmeier, Junyi Jessy Li, Annie Louis, Michael Strube, Amir Zeldes
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CODI
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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107–121
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.codi-main.10
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.codi-main.10
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Zheng Zhao and Bonnie Webber. 2021. Revisiting Shallow Discourse Parsing in the PDTB-3: Handling Intra-sentential Implicits. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, pages 107–121, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Revisiting Shallow Discourse Parsing in the PDTB-3: Handling Intra-sentential Implicits (Zhao & Webber, CODI 2021)
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