Cross-lingual and cross-domain discourse segmentation of entire documents

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Discourse segmentation is a crucial step in building end-to-end discourse parsers. However, discourse segmenters only exist for a few languages and domains. Typically they only detect intra-sentential segment boundaries, assuming gold standard sentence and token segmentation, and relying on high-quality syntactic parses and rich heuristics that are not generally available across languages and domains. In this paper, we propose statistical discourse segmenters for five languages and three domains that do not rely on gold pre-annotations. We also consider the problem of learning discourse segmenters when no labeled data is available for a language. Our fully supervised system obtains 89.5% F1 for English newswire, with slight drops in performance on other domains, and we report supervised and unsupervised (cross-lingual) results for five languages in total.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelProceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics : Short papers
Antal sider7
Vol/bind2
ForlagAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Publikationsdato1 jan. 2017
Sider237-243
ISBN (Elektronisk)9781945626760
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 1 jan. 2017
Begivenhed55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2017 - Vancouver, Canada
Varighed: 30 jul. 20174 aug. 2017

Konference

Konference55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2017
LandCanada
ByVancouver
Periode30/07/201704/08/2017
SponsorAmazon, Apple, Baidu, et al, Google, Tencent

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