A Complete Shift-Reduce Chinese Discourse Parser with Robust Dynamic Oracle (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing work on hierarchical discourse parsing in English is based on the RST-style one. |
| Approach: | They propose a Chinese discourse parser that integrates pre-trained text encoder and employs novel training strategies to improve rhetorical relation recognition. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system achieves state-of-the-art performance in Chinese discourse parsing. |
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