discopy: A Neural System for Shallow Discourse Parsing

René Knaebel


Abstract
This paper demonstrates discopy, a novel framework that makes it easy to design components for end-to-end shallow discourse parsing. For the purpose of demonstration, we implement recent neural approaches and integrate contextualized word embeddings to predict explicit and non-explicit discourse relations. Our proposed neural feature-free system performs competitively to systems presented at the latest Shared Task on Shallow Discourse Parsing. Finally, a web front end is shown that simplifies the inspection of annotated documents. The source code, documentation, and pretrained models are publicly accessible.
Anthology ID:
2021.codi-main.12
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse
Month:
November
Year:
2021
Address:
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and Online
Editors:
Chloé Braud, Christian Hardmeier, Junyi Jessy Li, Annie Louis, Michael Strube, Amir Zeldes
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CODI
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
128–133
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.codi-main.12
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.codi-main.12
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Cite (ACL):
René Knaebel. 2021. discopy: A Neural System for Shallow Discourse Parsing. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, pages 128–133, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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discopy: A Neural System for Shallow Discourse Parsing (Knaebel, CODI 2021)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.codi-main.12.pdf
Video:
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Code
 rknaebel/discopy