4 papers
The CLaC Discourse Parser at CoNLL-2015
Majid Laali, Elnaz Davoodi, Leila Kosseim
This paper describes our submission (kosseim15) to the CoNLL-2015 shared task on shallow discourse parsing. We used the UIMA framework to develop our parser and used ClearTK to add…
The CLaC Discourse Parser at CoNLL-2016
Majid Laali, Andre Cianflone, Leila Kosseim
This paper describes our submission "CLaC" to the CoNLL-2016 shared task on shallow discourse parsing. We used two complementary approaches for the task. A standard machine learnin…
Improving Discourse Relation Projection to Build Discourse Annotated Corpora
Majid Laali, Leila Kosseim
The naive approach to annotation projection is not effective to project discourse annotations from one language to another because implicit discourse relations are often changed to…
Automatic Mapping of French Discourse Connectives to PDTB Discourse Relations
Majid Laali, Leila Kosseim
In this paper, we present an approach to exploit phrase tables generated by statistical machine translation in order to map French discourse connectives to discourse relations. Usi…