Discourse as a Function of Event: Profiling Discourse Structure in News Articles around the Main Event

Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Aaron Lee, Ruihong Huang, Lu Wang

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Discourse and Pragmatics Long Paper

Session 9B: Jul 7 (18:00-19:00 GMT)
Session 10B: Jul 7 (21:00-22:00 GMT)
Abstract: Understanding discourse structures of news articles is vital to effectively contextualize the occurrence of a news event. To enable computational modeling of news structures, we apply an existing theory of functional discourse structure for news articles that revolves around the main event and create a human-annotated corpus of 802 documents spanning over four domains and three media sources. Next, we propose several document-level neural-network models to automatically construct news content structures. Finally, we demonstrate that incorporating system predicted news structures yields new state-of-the-art performance for event coreference resolution. The news documents we annotated are openly available and the annotations are publicly released for future research.
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