CoMuMDR: Code-mixed Multi-modal Multi-domain corpus for Discourse paRsing in conversations (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Discourse parsing datasets based on conversations are restricted to a single domain . a lack of discourse structures in audio-based conversations is a challenge . |
| Approach: | They introduce CoMuMDR: Code-mixed Multi-modal Multi-domain corpus for Discourse parsing in conversations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus is code-mixed in Hindi and English and annotated with nine discourse relations. |
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