A Pilot Study on Dialogue-Level Dependency Parsing for Chinese

Gongyao Jiang, Shuang Liu, Meishan Zhang, Min Zhang


Abstract
Dialogue-level dependency parsing has received insufficient attention, especially for Chinese. To this end, we draw on ideas from syntactic dependency and rhetorical structure theory (RST), developing a high-quality human-annotated corpus, which contains 850 dialogues and 199,803 dependencies. Considering that such tasks suffer from high annotation costs, we investigate zero-shot and few-shot scenarios. Based on an existing syntactic treebank, we adopt a signal-based method to transform seen syntactic dependencies into unseen ones between elementary discourse units (EDUs), where the signals are detected by masked language modeling. Besides, we apply single-view and multi-view data selection to access reliable pseudo-labeled instances. Experimental results show the effectiveness of these baselines. Moreover, we discuss several crucial points about our dataset and approach.
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2023.findings-acl.607
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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9526–9541
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.607
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10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.607
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Gongyao Jiang, Shuang Liu, Meishan Zhang, and Min Zhang. 2023. A Pilot Study on Dialogue-Level Dependency Parsing for Chinese. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 9526–9541, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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