Coupling Local Context and Global Semantic Prototypes via a Hierarchical Architecture for Rhetorical Roles Labeling (2026.eacl-long)
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Anas Belfathi, Nicolas Hernandez, Monceaux Laura, Warren Bonnard, Mary Catherine Lavissière, Christine Jacquin, Richard Dufour
| Challenge: | Hierarchical models capture local dependencies but lack global, corpus-level representations. |
| Approach: | They propose two prototype-based methods that integrate local context with global representations to address this limitation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods integrate local context with global representations. |
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