Improving Dialogue Discourse Parsing via Reply-to Structures of Addressee Recognition

Yaxin Fan, Feng Jiang, Peifeng Li, Fang Kong, Qiaoming Zhu


Abstract
Dialogue discourse parsing aims to reflect the relation-based structure of dialogue by establishing discourse links according to discourse relations. To alleviate data sparsity, previous studies have adopted multitasking approaches to jointly learn dialogue discourse parsing with related tasks (e.g., reading comprehension) that require additional human annotation, thus limiting their generality. In this paper, we propose a multitasking framework that integrates dialogue discourse parsing with its neighboring task addressee recognition. Addressee recognition reveals the reply-to structure that partially overlaps with the relation-based structure, which can be exploited to facilitate relation-based structure learning. To this end, we first proposed a reinforcement learning agent to identify training examples from addressee recognition that are most helpful for dialog discourse parsing. Then, a task-aware structure transformer is designed to capture the shared and private dialogue structure of different tasks, thereby further promoting dialogue discourse parsing. Experimental results on both the Molweni and STAC datasets show that our proposed method can outperform the SOTA baselines. The code will be available at https://github.com/yxfanSuda/RLTST.
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2023.emnlp-main.526
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Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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EMNLP
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8484–8495
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10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.526
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Yaxin Fan, Feng Jiang, Peifeng Li, Fang Kong, and Qiaoming Zhu. 2023. Improving Dialogue Discourse Parsing via Reply-to Structures of Addressee Recognition. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 8484–8495, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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