Towards Cross-Domain PDTB-Style Discourse Parsing

GDTB: Genre Diverse Data for English Shallow Discourse Parsing across Modalities, Text Types, and Domains

Work on shallow discourse parsing in English has focused on the Wall Street Journal corpus, the only large-scale dataset for the language in the PDTB framework. However, the data is not openly available, is restricted to…

Hybrid Approach to PDTB-styled Discourse Parsing for CoNLL-2015

Inferring Discourse Relations from PDTB-style Discourse Labels for Argumentative Revision Classification

Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB)-style annotation focuses on labeling local discourse relations between text spans and typically ignores larger discourse contexts. In this paper we propose two approaches to infer discourse…

Revisiting Shallow Discourse Parsing in the PDTB-3: Handling Intra-sentential Implicits

In the PDTB-3, several thousand implicit discourse relations were newly annotated \textit{within} individual sentences, adding to the over 15,000 implicit relations annotated \textit{across} adjacent sentences in the PDT…

Shallow Discourse Parsing for Under-Resourced Languages: Combining Machine Translation and Annotation Projection

Shallow Discourse Parsing (SDP), the identification of coherence relations between text spans, relies on large amounts of training data, which so far exists only for English - any other language is in this respect an und…