@InProceedings{yung-noji-matsumoto:2017:I17-2,
  author    = {Yung, Frances  and  Noji, Hiroshi  and  Matsumoto, Yuji},
  title     = {Can Discourse Relations be Identified Incrementally?},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)},
  month     = {November},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Taipei, Taiwan},
  publisher = {Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing},
  pages     = {157--162},
  abstract  = {Humans process language word by word
	and construct partial linguistic structures
	on the fly before the end of the sentence
	is perceived. Inspired by this cognitive
	ability, incremental algorithms for natural
	language processing tasks have been proposed
	and demonstrated promising performance.
	For discourse relation (DR) parsing,
	however, it is not yet clear to what
	extent humans can recognize DRs incrementally,
	because the latent ‘nodes’ of
	discourse structure can span clauses and
	sentences. To answer this question, this
	work investigates incrementality in discourse
	processing based on a corpus annotated
	with DR signals. We find that
	DRs are dominantly signaled at the boundary
	between the two constituent discourse
	units. The findings complement existing
	psycholinguistic theories on expectation in
	discourse processing and provide direction
	for incremental discourse parsing.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/I17-2027}
}