We present a series of experiments on automatically identifying the sense of implicit discourse relations, i.e. relations that are not marked with a discourse connective such as &...
Implicit discourse relation recognition is difficult due to the absence of explicit discourse connectives between arbitrary spans of text. In this paper, we use language models to...
Zhi Min Zhou, Man Lan, Zhengyu Niu, Yu Xu, Jian Su
We report results on predicting the sense of implicit discourse relations between adjacent sentences in text. Our investigation concentrates on the association between discourse r...
Annie Louis, Aravind K. Joshi, Rashmi Prasad, Ani ...
Existing works indicate that the absence of explicit discourse connectives makes it difficult to recognize implicit discourse relations. In this paper we attempt to overcome this ...
Zhi-Min Zhou, Yu Xu, Zheng-Yu Niu, Man Lan, Jian S...
We present a corpus study of local discourse relations based on the Penn Discourse Tree Bank, a large manually annotated corpus of explicitly or implicitly realized relations. We ...