Unsupervised Discourse Constituency Parsing Using Viterbi EM

In this paper, we introduce an unsupervised discourse constituency parsing algorithm. We use Viterbi EM with a margin-based criterion to train a span-based discourse parser in an unsupervised manner. We also propose initialization methods for Viterbi training of discourse constituents based on our p...

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Main Authors: Nishida, Noriki, Nakayama, Hideki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2020-07-01
Series:Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Online Access:https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/tacl_a_00312