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SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
The Effects of Discourse Connectives Prediction on Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition
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
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Predicting Discourse Connectives for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition
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...
CICLING
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Sense Annotation in the Penn Discourse Treebank
Abstract. An important aspect of discourse understanding and generation involves the recognition and processing of discourse relations. These are conveyed by discourse connectives,...
Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Alan Lee, Aravind...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Easily Identifiable Discourse Relations
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 ...
Emily Pitler, Mridhula Raghupathy, Hena Mehta, Ani...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Automatic sense prediction for implicit discourse relations in text
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 &...
Emily Pitler, Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova