QADiscourse--Discourse Relations as QA Pairs: Representation, Crowdsourcing and Baselines

V Pyatkin, A Klein, R Tsarfaty, I Dagan - arxiv preprint arxiv:2010.02815, 2020 - arxiv.org
Discourse relations describe how two propositions relate to one another, and identifying
them automatically is an integral part of natural language understanding. However …

[PDF][PDF] Discogem: A crowdsourced corpus of genre-mixed implicit discourse relations

M Scholman, D Tianai, F Yung… - the 13th Language …, 2022 - pure.mpg.de
DiscoGeM: A Crowdsourced Corpus of Genre-Mixed Implicit Discourse Relations Page 1
Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022) …

Design choices for crowdsourcing implicit discourse relations: revealing the biases introduced by task design

V Pyatkin, F Yung, MCJ Scholman… - Transactions of the …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Disagreement in natural language annotation has mostly been studied from a perspective of
biases introduced by the annotators and the annotation frameworks. Here, we propose to …

Contextualized and generalized sentence representations by contrastive self-supervised learning: A case study on discourse relation analysis

H Kiyomaru, S Kurohashi - … of the 2021 Conference of the North …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
We propose a method to learn contextualized and generalized sentence representations
using contrastive self-supervised learning. In the proposed method, a model is given a text …

Crowdsourcing discourse relation annotations by a two-step connective insertion task

F Yung, V Demberg, M Scholman - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2019 - aclanthology.org
The perspective of being able to crowd-source coherence relations bears the promise of
acquiring annotations for new texts quickly, which could then increase the size and variety of …

Design choices in crowdsourcing discourse relation annotations: The effect of worker selection and training

M Scholman, V Pyatkin, F Yung, I Dagan… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Obtaining linguistic annotation from novice crowdworkers is far from trivial. A case in point is
the annotation of discourse relations, which is a complicated task. Recent methods have …

On Crowdsourcing Task Design for Discourse Relation Annotation

F Yung, V Demberg - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.11637, 2024 - arxiv.org
Interpreting implicit discourse relations involves complex reasoning, requiring the integration
of semantic cues with background knowledge, as overt connectives like because or then are …

The effect of domain knowledge and implicitation on discourse relation inferences

M Marchal, M Scholman, V Demberg - Dialogue & Discourse, 2022 - journals.uic.edu
Readers adopt their domain knowledge to make inferences about information that is left
implicit in the text. The present research investigates the role of domain knowledge in …

Personalized extractive summarization using an ising machine towards real-time generation of efficient and coherent dialogue scenarios

H Takatsu, T Kashikawa, K Kimura… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
We propose a personalized dialogue scenario generation system which transmits efficient
and coherent information with a real-time extractive summarization method optimized by an …

[PDF][PDF] Studies on Data-Driven Discourse Relation Recognition toward Natural Language Understanding

K Ohmura - 2024 - repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp
The realization of computers that understand natural language to the same extent as
humans is the ultimate goal of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Toward this goal …