Laura Rivière


2024

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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
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)

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.

2023

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Proceedings of the 3rd Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT 2023)
Chloé Braud | Yang Janet Liu | Eleni Metheniti | Philippe Muller | Laura Rivière | Attapol Rutherford | Amir Zeldes
Proceedings of the 3rd Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT 2023)

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The DISRPT 2023 Shared Task on Elementary Discourse Unit Segmentation, Connective Detection, and Relation Classification
Chloé Braud | Yang Janet Liu | Eleni Metheniti | Philippe Muller | Laura Rivière | Attapol Rutherford | Amir Zeldes
Proceedings of the 3rd Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT 2023)

In 2023, the third iteration of the DISRPT Shared Task (Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking) was held, dedicated to the underlying units used in discourse parsing across formalisms. Following the success of the 2019and 2021 tasks on Elementary Discourse Unit Segmentation, Connective Detection, and Relation Classification, this iteration has added 10 new corpora, including 2 new languages (Thai and Italian) and 3 discourse treebanks annotated in the discourse dependency representation in addition to the previously included frameworks: RST, SDRT, and PDTB. In this paper, we review the data included in the Shared Task, which covers 26 datasets across 13 languages, survey and compare submitted systems, and report on system performance on each task for both annotated and plain-tokenized versions of the data.

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DisCut and DiscReT: MELODI at DISRPT 2023
Eleni Metheniti | Chloé Braud | Philippe Muller | Laura Rivière
Proceedings of the 3rd Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT 2023)

This paper presents the results obtained by the MELODI team for the three tasks proposed within the DISRPT 2023 shared task on discourse: segmentation, connective identification, and relation classification. The competition involves corpora in various languages in several underlying frameworks, and proposes two tracks depending on the presence or not of annotations of sentence boundaries and syntactic information. For these three tasks, we rely on a transformer-based architecture, and investigate several optimizations of the models, including hyper-parameter search and layer freezing. For discourse relations, we also explore the use of adapters—a lightweight solution for model fine-tuning—and introduce relation mappings to partially deal with the label set explosion we are facing within the setting of the shared task in a multi-corpus perspective. In the end, we propose one single architecture for segmentation and connectives, based on XLM-RoBERTa large, freezed at lower layers, with new state-of-the-art results for segmentation, and we propose 3 different models for relations, since the task makes it harder to generalize across all corpora.

2018

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Extending the gold standard for a lexical substitution task: is it worth it?
Ludovic Tanguy | Cécile Fabre | Laura Rivière
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)