%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Classification by Modeling Inter-dependencies of Discourse Units in a Paragraph
%A Dai, Zeyu
%A Huang, Ruihong
%Y Walker, Marilyn
%Y Ji, Heng
%Y Stent, Amanda
%S Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)
%D 2018
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C New Orleans, Louisiana
%F dai-huang-2018-improving
%X We argue that semantic meanings of a sentence or clause can not be interpreted independently from the rest of a paragraph, or independently from all discourse relations and the overall paragraph-level discourse structure. With the goal of improving implicit discourse relation classification, we introduce a paragraph-level neural networks that model inter-dependencies between discourse units as well as discourse relation continuity and patterns, and predict a sequence of discourse relations in a paragraph. Experimental results show that our model outperforms the previous state-of-the-art systems on the benchmark corpus of PDTB.
%R 10.18653/v1/N18-1013
%U https://aclanthology.org/N18-1013
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N18-1013
%P 141-151