Oliver Kinch


2022

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DDisCo: A Discourse Coherence Dataset for Danish
Linea Flansmose Mikkelsen | Oliver Kinch | Anders Jess Pedersen | Ophélie Lacroix
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

To date, there has been no resource for studying discourse coherence on real-world Danish texts. Discourse coherence has mostly been approached with the assumption that incoherent texts can be represented by coherent texts in which sentences have been shuffled. However, incoherent real-world texts rarely resemble that. We thus present DDisCo, a dataset including text from the Danish Wikipedia and Reddit annotated for discourse coherence. We choose to annotate real-world texts instead of relying on artificially incoherent text for training and testing models. Then, we evaluate the performance of several methods, including neural networks, on the dataset.