Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Classification by Modeling Inter-dependencies of Discourse Units in a Paragraph

Zeyu Dai, Ruihong Huang


Abstract
We argue that semantic meanings of a sentence or clause can not be interpreted independently from the rest of a paragraph, or independently from all discourse relations and the overall paragraph-level discourse structure. With the goal of improving implicit discourse relation classification, we introduce a paragraph-level neural networks that model inter-dependencies between discourse units as well as discourse relation continuity and patterns, and predict a sequence of discourse relations in a paragraph. Experimental results show that our model outperforms the previous state-of-the-art systems on the benchmark corpus of PDTB.
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N18-1013
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Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)
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June
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2018
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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Marilyn Walker, Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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141–151
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https://aclanthology.org/N18-1013
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10.18653/v1/N18-1013
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Zeyu Dai and Ruihong Huang. 2018. Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Classification by Modeling Inter-dependencies of Discourse Units in a Paragraph. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), pages 141–151, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Classification by Modeling Inter-dependencies of Discourse Units in a Paragraph (Dai & Huang, NAACL 2018)
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