Lightweight Connective Detection Using Gradient Boosting

Mustafa Erolcan Er, Murathan Kurfalı, Deniz Zeyrek


Abstract
In this work, we introduce a lightweight discourse connective detection system. Employing gradient boosting trained on straightforward, low-complexity features, this proposed approach sidesteps the computational demands of the current approaches that rely on deep neural networks. Considering its simplicity, our approach achieves competitive results while offering significant gains in terms of time even on CPU. Furthermore, the stable performance across two unrelated languages suggests the robustness of our system in the multilingual scenario. The model is designed to support the annotation of discourse relations, particularly in scenarios with limited resources, while minimizing performance loss.
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2024.isa-1.7
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Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation @ LREC-COLING 2024
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Harry Bunt, Nancy Ide, Kiyong Lee, Volha Petukhova, James Pustejovsky, Laurent Romary
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ISA | WS
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ELRA and ICCL
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53–59
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Mustafa Erolcan Er, Murathan Kurfalı, and Deniz Zeyrek. 2024. Lightweight Connective Detection Using Gradient Boosting. In Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 53–59, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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Lightweight Connective Detection Using Gradient Boosting (Er et al., ISA-WS 2024)
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