Zero-shot transfer for implicit discourse relation classification

Murathan Kurfalı, Robert Östling


Abstract
Automatically classifying the relation between sentences in a discourse is a challenging task, in particular when there is no overt expression of the relation. It becomes even more challenging by the fact that annotated training data exists only for a small number of languages, such as English and Chinese. We present a new system using zero-shot transfer learning for implicit discourse relation classification, where the only resource used for the target language is unannotated parallel text. This system is evaluated on the discourse-annotated TED-MDB parallel corpus, where it obtains good results for all seven languages using only English training data.
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W19-5927
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Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
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September
Year:
2019
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Stockholm, Sweden
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Satoshi Nakamura, Milica Gasic, Ingrid Zukerman, Gabriel Skantze, Mikio Nakano, Alexandros Papangelis, Stefan Ultes, Koichiro Yoshino
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SIGDIAL
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SIGDIAL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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226–231
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-5927
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-5927
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Murathan Kurfalı and Robert Östling. 2019. Zero-shot transfer for implicit discourse relation classification. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 226–231, Stockholm, Sweden. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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