Introducing Rhetorical Parallelism Detection: A New Task with Datasets, Metrics, and Baselines (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Parallelism is a common stylistic tool in rhetorical structures, but it is rarely investigated in the field of natural language processing. |
| Approach: | They propose a task of rhetorical parallelism detection to investigate its structure and meaning . they use a Latin and adapted Chinese dataset to define parallelise and define it using a family of metrics . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves F1 scores on Latin and Chinese datasets. |
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