A Recurrent Neural Model with Attention for the Recognition of Chinese Implicit Discourse Relations

Samuel Rönnqvist, Niko Schenk, Christian Chiarcos


Abstract
We introduce an attention-based Bi-LSTM for Chinese implicit discourse relations and demonstrate that modeling argument pairs as a joint sequence can outperform word order-agnostic approaches. Our model benefits from a partial sampling scheme and is conceptually simple, yet achieves state-of-the-art performance on the Chinese Discourse Treebank. We also visualize its attention activity to illustrate the model’s ability to selectively focus on the relevant parts of an input sequence.
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P17-2040
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Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
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July
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Regina Barzilay, Min-Yen Kan
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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256–262
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https://aclanthology.org/P17-2040
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P17-2040
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Samuel Rönnqvist, Niko Schenk, and Christian Chiarcos. 2017. A Recurrent Neural Model with Attention for the Recognition of Chinese Implicit Discourse Relations. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 256–262, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Recurrent Neural Model with Attention for the Recognition of Chinese Implicit Discourse Relations (Rönnqvist et al., ACL 2017)
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