Using phrasal patterns to identify discourse relations

Authors:
Manami Saito;Kazuhide Yamamoto;Satoshi Sekine
Affiliations:
Nagaoka University of Technology, Niigata, JP;Nagaoka University of Technology, Niigata, JP;New York University, New York, NY
Venue:
NAACL-Short '06 Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Short Papers
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper describes a system which identifies discourse relations between two successive sentences in Japanese. On top of the lexical information previously proposed, we used phrasal pattern information. Adding phrasal information improves the system's accuracy 12%, from 53% to 65%.