2008 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing Discourse Connective Argument Identification with Connective Specific Rankers August 04-August 07 ISBN: 978-0-7695-3279-0
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICSC.2008.50
Automatically identifying the arguments of discourse connectives (e.g., and, because, however) is an important part of modeling discourse structure. Previous work used a single, general classifier for different connectives; however, connectives differ in their distribution and behavior, so conflating them this way loses discriminative power. Here, we show that using models for specific connectives and types of connectives and interpolating them with a general model improves performance. We also describe additional features that provide greater sensitivity to morphological, syntactic, and discourse patterns, and less sensitivity to parse quality. Our best model achieves a 3.6% absolute improvement over the state-of-the-art on identifying both arguments of discourse connectives when using features from gold-standard parses, and a 9.0% improvement when using automatically produced parses.
Index Terms:
discourse structure, discourse connectives, rhetorical relations, Penn Discourse TreeBank, probabilistic rankers
Citation:
Robert Elwell, Jason Baldridge, "Discourse Connective Argument Identification with Connective Specific Rankers," icsc, pp.198-205, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2008 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||