Topic Tensor Network for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition in Chinese (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Currently, most studies on implicit discourse relation recognition use sentence-level representations . Chinese is a paratactic language that tends to pro-drop clause connectives . |
| Approach: | They propose a topic tensor network to recognize Chinese implicit discourse relations with both sentence-level and topic-level representations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models in micro and macro F1 scores on a Chinese discourse corpus. |
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