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Tag-Enhanced Tree-Structured Neural Networks for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification

Computation and Language 2018-03-06 v1

Abstract

Identifying implicit discourse relations between text spans is a challenging task because it requires understanding the meaning of the text. To tackle this task, recent studies have tried several deep learning methods but few of them exploited the syntactic information. In this work, we explore the idea of incorporating syntactic parse tree into neural networks. Specifically, we employ the Tree-LSTM model and Tree-GRU model, which are based on the tree structure, to encode the arguments in a relation. Moreover, we further leverage the constituent tags to control the semantic composition process in these tree-structured neural networks. Experimental results show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on PDTB corpus.

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@article{arxiv.1803.01165,
  title  = {Tag-Enhanced Tree-Structured Neural Networks for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification},
  author = {Yizhong Wang and Sujian Li and Jingfeng Yang and Xu Sun and Houfeng Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.01165},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Accepted by IJCNLP 2017, 10 pages

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