Discourse Self-Attention for Discourse Element Identification in Argumentative Student Essays
Wei Song, Ziyao Song, Ruiji Fu, Lizhen Liu, Miaomiao Cheng, Ting Liu
Discourse and Pragmatics Long Paper
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Abstract:
This paper proposes to adapt self-attention to discourse level for modeling discourse elements in argumentative student essays. Specifically, we focus on two issues. First, we propose structural sentence positional encodings to explicitly represent sentence positions. Second, we propose to use inter-sentence attentions to capture sentence interactions and enhance sentence representation. We conduct experiments on two datasets: a Chinese dataset and an English dataset. We find that (i) sentence positional encoding can lead to a large improvement for identifying discourse elements; (ii) a structural relative positional encoding of sentences shows to be most effective; (iii) inter-sentence attention vectors are useful as a kind of sentence representations for identifying discourse elements.
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