Discourse Analysis via Questions and Answers: Parsing Dependency Structures of Questions Under Discussion

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Ko, Wei-Jen [1 ]
Wu, Yating [2 ]
Dalton, Cutter [4 ]
Srinivas, Dananjay [4 ]
Durrett, Greg [1 ]
Li, Junyi Jessy [3 ]
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[1] Univ Texas Austin, Comp Sci, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[2] Univ Texas Austin, Elect & Comp Engn, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[3] Univ Texas Austin, Linguist, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[4] Univ Colorado Boulder, Linguist, Boulder, CO USA
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FINDINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL 2023) | 2023年
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Automatic discourse processing is bottlenecked by data: current discourse formalisms pose highly demanding annotation tasks involving large taxonomies of discourse relations, making them inaccessible to lay annotators. This work instead adopts the linguistic framework of Questions Under Discussion (QUD) for discourse analysis and seeks to derive QUD structures automatically. QUD views each sentence as an answer to a question triggered in prior context; thus, we characterize relationships between sentences as free-form questions, in contrast to exhaustive fine-grained taxonomies. We develop the first-of-its-kind QUD parser that derives a dependency structure of questions over full documents, trained using a large, crowdsourced question-answering dataset DCQA (Ko et al., 2022). Human evaluation results show that QUD dependency parsing is possible for language models trained with this crowdsourced, generalizable annotation scheme. We illustrate how our QUD structure is distinct from RST trees, and demonstrate the utility of QUD analysis in the context of document simplification. Our findings show that QUD parsing is an appealing alternative for automatic discourse processing.
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页码:11181 / 11195
页数:15
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