Joint Syntacto-Discourse Parsing and the Syntacto-Discourse Treebank
Kai Zhao, Liang Huang · 2017
Discourse parsing has long been treated as a stand-alone problem independent from constituency or dependency parsing.Most attempts at this problem are pipelined rather than end-to-end, sophisticated, and not self-contained: they assume goldstandard text segmentations (Elementary Discourse Units), and use external parsers for syntactic features.In this paper we propose the first end-to-end discourse parser that jointly parses in both syntax and discourse levels, as well as the first syntacto-discourse treebank by integrating the Penn Treebank with the RST Treebank.Built upon our recent span-based constituency parser, this joint syntactodiscourse parser requires no preprocessing whatsoever (such as segmentation or feature extraction), achieves the state-of-theart end-to-end discourse parsing accuracy.