Shallow Discourse Parsing with Maximum Entropy Model

10/31/2017
by   Jingjing Xu, et al.
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In recent years, more research has been devoted to studying the subtask of the complete shallow discourse parsing, such as indentifying discourse connective and arguments of connective. There is a need to design a full discourse parser to pull these subtasks together. So we develop a discourse parser turning the free text into discourse relations. The parser includes connective identifier, arguments identifier, sense classifier and non-explicit identifier, which connects with each other in pipeline. Each component applies the maximum entropy model with abundant lexical and syntax features extracted from the Penn Discourse Tree-bank. The head-based representation of the PDTB is adopted in the arguments identifier, which turns the problem of indentifying the arguments of discourse connective into finding the head and end of the arguments. In the non-explicit identifier, the contextual type features like words which have high frequency and can reflect the discourse relation are introduced to improve the performance of non-explicit identifier. Compared with other methods, experimental results achieve the considerable performance.

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