A Top-down Neural Architecture towards Text-level Parsing of Discourse Rhetorical Structure (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Text-level discourse parsing of discourse rhetorical structure (DRS) is a fundamental research topic in natural language processing. |
| Approach: | They propose a top-down neural architecture for text-level discourse parsing . they cast the parser as a recursive split point ranking task . |
| Outcome: | The proposed top-down approach is more suitable for text-level discourse parsing. |
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