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In this article, we explore the potential of using sentence-level discourse structure for machine translation evaluation. We first design discourse-aware similarity measures, which use all-subtree kernels to compare discourse parse trees in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Shafiq Joty , Francisco Guzmán , Lluís Màrquez , Preslav Nakov

Rhetorical Structure Theory based Discourse Parsing (RST-DP) explores how clauses, sentences, and large text spans compose a whole discourse and presents the rhetorical structure as a hierarchical tree. Existing RST parsing pipelines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Ming Li , Ruihong Huang

Discourse parsing is a crucial task in natural language processing that aims to reveal the higher-level relations in a text. Despite growing interest in cross-lingual discourse parsing, challenges persist due to limited parallel data and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Elena Chistova

We introduce a novel top-down end-to-end formulation of document-level discourse parsing in the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) framework. In this formulation, we consider discourse parsing as a sequence of splitting decisions at token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Thanh-Tung Nguyen , Xuan-Phi Nguyen , Shafiq Joty , Xiaoli Li

In recent years, There has been a variety of research on discourse parsing, particularly RST discourse parsing. Most of the recent work on RST parsing has focused on implementing new types of features or learning algorithms in order to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Michael Heilman , Kenji Sagae

Document-level discourse parsing, in accordance with the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), remains notoriously challenging. Challenges include the deep structure of document-level discourse trees, the requirement of subtle semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Ke Shi , Zhengyuan Liu , Nancy F. Chen

Discourse structure is the hidden link between surface features and document-level properties, such as sentiment polarity. We show that the discourse analyses produced by Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) parsers can improve document-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Parminder Bhatia , Yangfeng Ji , Jacob Eisenstein

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Patrick Huber , Linzi Xing , Giuseppe Carenini

In this article we present Enhanced Rhetorical Structure Theory (eRST), a new theoretical framework for computational discourse analysis, based on an expansion of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST). The framework encompasses discourse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Amir Zeldes , Tatsuya Aoyama , Yang Janet Liu , Siyao Peng , Debopam Das , Luke Gessler

We show that discourse structure, as defined by Rhetorical Structure Theory and provided by an existing discourse parser, benefits text categorization. Our approach uses a recursive neural network and a newly proposed attention mechanism to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Yangfeng Ji , Noah Smith

Argument Mining (AM) helps in automating the extraction of complex argumentative structures such as Argument Components (ACs) like Premise, Claim etc. and Argumentative Relations (ARs) like Support, Attack etc. in an argumentative text. Due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Nilmadhab Das , Vishal Vaibhav , Yash Sunil Choudhary , V. Vijaya Saradhi , Ashish Anand

Text discourse parsing plays an important role in understanding information flow and argumentative structure in natural language. Previous research under the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) has mostly focused on inducing and evaluating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Zhengyuan Liu , Ke Shi , Nancy F. Chen

Rhetorical structure analysis (RSA) explores discourse relations among elementary discourse units (EDUs) in a text. It is very useful in many text processing tasks employing relationships among EDUs such as text understanding,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-03-17 Somnuk Sinthupoun , Ohm Sornil

Particularly in the structure of global discourse, coherence plays a pivotal role in human text comprehension and is a hallmark of high-quality text. This is especially true for persuasive texts, where coherent argument structures support…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Christopher van Le

For long document summarization, discourse structure is important to discern the key content of the text and the differences in importance level between sentences. Unfortunately, the integration of rhetorical structure theory (RST) into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Dongqi Liu , Vera Demberg

One influential approach to assessing the "goodness" of arguments is offered by the Pragma-Dialectical school (p-d) (Eemeren & Grootendorst 1992). This can be compared with Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) (Mann & Thompson 1988), an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Chris Reed , Aspassia Daskalopulu

Convincing someone of the truth value of a premise requires understanding and articulating the core logical structure of the argument which proves or disproves the premise. Understanding the logical structure of an argument refers to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Krunal Shah , Dan Roth

Argument mining is to analyze argument structure and extract important argument information from unstructured text. An argument mining system can help people automatically gain causal and logical information behind the text. As…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Lang Cao

Argument Mining(AM) aims to uncover the argumentative structures within a text. Previous methods require several subtasks, such as span identification, component classification, and relation classification. Consequently, these methods need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Masayuki Kawarada , Tsutomu Hirao , Wataru Uchida , Masaaki Nagata

Discourse parsing is an integral part of understanding information flow and argumentative structure in documents. Most previous research has focused on inducing and evaluating models from the English RST Discourse Treebank. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Chloé Braud , Maximin Coavoux , Anders Søgaard
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