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title = "{DMRST}: A Joint Framework for Document-Level Multilingual {RST} Discourse Segmentation and Parsing",
author = "Liu, Zhengyuan and
Shi, Ke and
Chen, Nancy",
editor = "Braud, Chlo{\'e} and
Hardmeier, Christian and
Li, Junyi Jessy and
Louis, Annie and
Strube, Michael and
Zeldes, Amir",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse",
month = nov,
year = "2021",
address = "Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.codi-main.15",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.codi-main.15",
pages = "154--164",
abstract = "Text discourse parsing weighs importantly in understanding information flow and argumentative structure in natural language, making it beneficial for downstream tasks. While previous work significantly improves the performance of RST discourse parsing, they are not readily applicable to practical use cases: (1) EDU segmentation is not integrated into most existing tree parsing frameworks, thus it is not straightforward to apply such models on newly-coming data. (2) Most parsers cannot be used in multilingual scenarios, because they are developed only in English. (3) Parsers trained from single-domain treebanks do not generalize well on out-of-domain inputs. In this work, we propose a document-level multilingual RST discourse parsing framework, which conducts EDU segmentation and discourse tree parsing jointly. Moreover, we propose a cross-translation augmentation strategy to enable the framework to support multilingual parsing and improve its domain generality. Experimental results show that our model achieves state-of-the-art performance on document-level multilingual RST parsing in all sub-tasks.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T DMRST: A Joint Framework for Document-Level Multilingual RST Discourse Segmentation and Parsing
%A Liu, Zhengyuan
%A Shi, Ke
%A Chen, Nancy
%Y Braud, Chloé
%Y Hardmeier, Christian
%Y Li, Junyi Jessy
%Y Louis, Annie
%Y Strube, Michael
%Y Zeldes, Amir
%S Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse
%D 2021
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and Online
%F liu-etal-2021-dmrst
%X Text discourse parsing weighs importantly in understanding information flow and argumentative structure in natural language, making it beneficial for downstream tasks. While previous work significantly improves the performance of RST discourse parsing, they are not readily applicable to practical use cases: (1) EDU segmentation is not integrated into most existing tree parsing frameworks, thus it is not straightforward to apply such models on newly-coming data. (2) Most parsers cannot be used in multilingual scenarios, because they are developed only in English. (3) Parsers trained from single-domain treebanks do not generalize well on out-of-domain inputs. In this work, we propose a document-level multilingual RST discourse parsing framework, which conducts EDU segmentation and discourse tree parsing jointly. Moreover, we propose a cross-translation augmentation strategy to enable the framework to support multilingual parsing and improve its domain generality. Experimental results show that our model achieves state-of-the-art performance on document-level multilingual RST parsing in all sub-tasks.
%R 10.18653/v1/2021.codi-main.15
%U https://aclanthology.org/2021.codi-main.15
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.codi-main.15
%P 154-164
Markdown (Informal)
[DMRST: A Joint Framework for Document-Level Multilingual RST Discourse Segmentation and Parsing](https://aclanthology.org/2021.codi-main.15) (Liu et al., CODI 2021)
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