Predicting Above-Sentence Discourse Structure using Distant Supervision from Topic Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06196v1
• Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 10:16:45 GMT
• Title: Predicting Above-Sentence Discourse Structure using Distant Supervision from Topic Segmentation
• Authors: Patrick Huber, Linzi Xing and Giuseppe Carenini
• Abstract summary: RST-style discourse parsing plays a vital role in many NLP tasks. Despite its importance, one of the most prevailing limitations in modern day discourse parsing is the lack of large-scale datasets.
• Score: 8.688675709130289
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: RST-style discourse parsing plays a vital role in many NLP tasks, revealing the underlying semantic/pragmatic structure of potentially complex and diverse documents. Despite its importance, one of the most prevailing limitations in modern day discourse parsing is the lack of large-scale datasets. To overcome the data sparsity issue, distantly supervised approaches from tasks like sentiment analysis and summarization have been recently proposed. Here, we extend this line of research by exploiting distant supervision from topic segmentation, which can arguably provide a strong and oftentimes complementary signal for high-level discourse structures. Experiments on two human-annotated discourse treebanks confirm that our proposal generates accurate tree structures on sentence and paragraph level, consistently outperforming previous distantly supervised models on the sentence-to-document task and occasionally reaching even higher scores on the sentence-to-paragraph level.

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