@InProceedings{braud-coavoux-sogaard:2017:EACLlong,
  author    = {Braud, Chlo\'{e}  and  Coavoux, Maximin  and  S{\o}gaard, Anders},
  title     = {Cross-lingual RST Discourse Parsing},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers},
  month     = {April},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Valencia, Spain},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {292--304},
  abstract  = {Discourse parsing is an integral part of understanding information flow and
	argumentative structure in documents. Most previous research has focused on
	inducing and evaluating models from the English RST Discourse Treebank.
	However, discourse treebanks for other languages exist, including Spanish,
	German, Basque, Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese. The treebanks share the same
	underlying linguistic theory, but differ slightly in the way documents are
	annotated. In this paper, we present (a) a new discourse parser which is
	simpler, yet competitive (significantly better on 2/3 metrics) to state of the
	art for English, (b) a harmonization of discourse treebanks across languages,
	enabling us to present (c) what to the best of our knowledge are the first
	experiments on cross-lingual discourse parsing.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E17-1028}
}