Implicit Discourse Relation Classification For Nigerian Pidgin (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing discourse parsing tools are not available for Nigerian Pidgin (NP) this task requires supervised training and requires prompting. |
| Approach: | They propose to use implicit discourse relation classification (IDRC) for Nigerian Pidgin, which requires supervised training. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline and NP IDR classifiers in f1 scores. |
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