DISRPT: A Multilingual, Multi-domain, Cross-framework Benchmark for Discourse Processing

Chloé Braud, Amir Zeldes, Laura Rivière, Yang Janet Liu, Philippe Muller, Damien Sileo, Tatsuya Aoyama


Abstract
This paper presents DISRPT, a multilingual, multi-domain, and cross-framework benchmark dataset for discourse processing, covering the tasks of discourse unit segmentation, connective identification, and relation classification. DISRPT includes 13 languages, with data from 24 corpora covering about 4 millions tokens and around 250,000 discourse relation instances from 4 discourse frameworks: RST, SDRT, PDTB, and Discourse Dependencies. We present an overview of the data, its development across three NLP shared tasks on discourse processing carried out in the past five years, and the latest modifications and added extensions. We also carry out an evaluation of state-of-the-art multilingual systems trained on the data for each task, showing plateau performance on segmentation, but important room for improvement for connective identification and relation classification. The DISRPT benchmark employs a unified format that we make available on GitHub and HuggingFace in order to encourage future work on discourse processing across languages, domains, and frameworks.
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2024.lrec-main.447
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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4990–5005
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Chloé Braud, Amir Zeldes, Laura Rivière, Yang Janet Liu, Philippe Muller, Damien Sileo, and Tatsuya Aoyama. 2024. DISRPT: A Multilingual, Multi-domain, Cross-framework Benchmark for Discourse Processing. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 4990–5005, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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