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Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition for English and Chinese with Multiview Modeling and Effective Representation Learning
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Title: Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition for English and Chinese with Multiview Modeling and Effective Representation Learning

 Authors: Li, HR; Zhang, JJ; Zong, CQ

 Author Full Names: Li, Haoran; Zhang, Jiajun; Zong, Chengqing

 Source: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ASIAN AND LOW-RESOURCE LANGUAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING, 16 (3):10.1145/3028772 APR 2017

 Language: English

 Abstract: Discourse relations between two text segments play an important role inmany Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. The connectives strongly indicate the sense of discourse relations, while in fact, there are no connectives in a large proportion of discourse relations, that is, implicit discourse relations. Compared with explicit relations, implicit relations are much harder to detect and have drawn significant attention. Until now, there have been many studies focusing on English implicit discourse relations, and few studies address implicit relation recognition in Chinese even though the implicit discourse relations in Chinese are more common than those in English. In our work, both the English and Chinese languages are our focus. The key to implicit relation prediction is to properly model the semantics of the two discourse arguments, as well as the contextual interaction between them. To achieve this goal, we propose a neural network based framework that consists of two hierarchies. The first one is the model hierarchy, in which we propose a maxmargin learning method to explore the implicit discourse relation from multiple views. The second one is the feature hierarchy, in which we learn multilevel distributed representations from words, arguments, and syntactic structures to sentences. We have conducted experiments on the standard benchmarks of English and Chinese, and the results show that compared with several methods our proposed method can achieve the best performance in most cases.

 ISSN: 2375-4699

 eISSN: 2375-4702

 Article Number: 19

 IDS Number: ER8QW

 Unique ID: WOS:000399087800005

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