Enhancing Reasoning Capabilities by Instruction Learning and Chain-of-Thoughts for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition

Yuxiang Lu, Yu Hong, Zhipang Wang, Guodong Zhou


Abstract
The aim of implicit discourse relation recognition is to comprehend the sense of connection between two arguments. In this work, we present a classification method that is solely based on generative models. Our proposed approach employs a combination of instruction templates and in-context learning to refine the generative model for effectively addressing the implicit discourse relation recognition task. Furthermore, we utilize Chain-of-Thoughts to partition the inference process into a sequence of three successive stages. This strategy enables us to fully utilize the autoregressive generative model’s potential for knowledge acquisition and inference, ultimately leading to enhanced performance on this natural language understanding task. The results of our experiments, evaluated on benchmark datasets PDTB 2.0, PDTB 3.0, and the CoNLL16 shared task, demonstrate superior performance compared to previous state-of-the-art models.
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2023.findings-emnlp.374
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
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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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Findings
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5634–5640
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10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.374
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Yuxiang Lu, Yu Hong, Zhipang Wang, and Guodong Zhou. 2023. Enhancing Reasoning Capabilities by Instruction Learning and Chain-of-Thoughts for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 5634–5640, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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