Multi-view and multi-task training of RST discourse parsers

Chloé Braud, Barbara Plank, Anders Søgaard


Abstract
We experiment with different ways of training LSTM networks to predict RST discourse trees. The main challenge for RST discourse parsing is the limited amounts of training data. We combat this by regularizing our models using task supervision from related tasks as well as alternative views on discourse structures. We show that a simple LSTM sequential discourse parser takes advantage of this multi-view and multi-task framework with 12-15% error reductions over our baseline (depending on the metric) and results that rival more complex state-of-the-art parsers.
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C16-1179
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
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December
Year:
2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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1903–1913
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https://aclanthology.org/C16-1179
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Chloé Braud, Barbara Plank, and Anders Søgaard. 2016. Multi-view and multi-task training of RST discourse parsers. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 1903–1913, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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Multi-view and multi-task training of RST discourse parsers (Braud et al., COLING 2016)
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Code
 chloebt/discourse
Data
RST-DT