Workshop on Shallow Discourse Parsing at Grammarly, Kyiv, 2020

Workshop announcement

Schedule

10:15-13:30 - Part 1: The theory of shallow discourse structure

13:30-14:30 - lunch

14:30-17:45 - Part 2: Shallow Discourse parsing

Preparation

Please download or clone this repository.

Please download/clone and install the baseline PDTB parser discopy.

The scripts in this repository (and in the parser) use Python3, and need the NLTK package installed. We will be working in a Jupyter notebook.

Finally, we will be using the following dataset in two formats (passwords are distributed separately). Please note that the data must be deleted after completion of the workshop.

• data, format 1
• data, format 2

Part 1: The theory of shallow discourse structure

Theory of discourse coherence

slides

Discourse Annotations

In-class exercise: What is a connective? Identifying connectives in Ukranian

PDTB exploration

Part 2: Shallow discourse parsing

Introduction to shallow discourse parsing

Existing discourse parser implementations

Implementing a discourse parser

Modify/play around with a connective detection module: discopy