Multimodal Extraction and Recognition of Arabic Implicit Discourse Relations (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Identifying implicit discourse relations in written text is challenging, but it is also crucial to understand them in spoken discourse. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for implicit discourse relation identification that uses audio and text data to extract semantically equivalent pairs of implicit and explicit discourse markers. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms audio-based models but can be augmented by combining text and audio features. |
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