Recursive Deep Models for Discourse Parsing

Jiwei Li, Rumeng Li, Eduard H. Hovy

Abstract: Text-level discourse parsing remains a challenge: most approaches employ features that fail to capture the intentional, semantic, and syntactic aspects that govern discourse coherence. In this paper, we propose a recursive model for discourse parsing that jointly models distributed representations for clauses, sentences, and entire discourses. The learned representations can to some extent learn the semantic and intentional import of words and larger discourse units automatically,. The proposed framework obtains comparable performance regarding standard discoursing parsing evaluations when compared against current state-of-art systems.