An unsupervised approach to recognizing discourse relations

作者: Daniel Marcu , Abdessamad Echihabi

DOI: 10.3115/1073083.1073145

关键词: Contrast (music)LinguisticsNatural language processingNatural languageDiscourse connectivesComputer scienceElaborationSemanticsComputational linguisticsArtificial intelligenceDiscourse relation

摘要: We present an unsupervised approach to recognizing discourse relations of CONTRAST, EXPLANATION-EVIDENCE, CONDITION and ELABORATION that hold between arbitrary spans texts. show relation classifiers trained on examples are automatically extracted from massive amounts text can be used distinguish some these with accuracies as high 93%, even when the not explicitly marked by cue phrases.

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