CoNLL-2015 Shared Task

References

http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~clp/conll15st/
- QUOTE:A participant system is given a piece of newswire text as input and returns discourse relations in the form of a discourse connective (explicit or implicit) taking two arguments (which can be clauses, sentences, or multi-sentence segments). Specifically, the participant system needs to i) locate both explicit (e.g.," because "," however "," and ".) discourse connectives in the text, ii) identify the spans of text that serve as the two arguments for each discourse connective, and iii) predict the sense of the discourse connectives (e.g., "Cause ", "Condition ", "Contrast "). Understanding such discourse relations is clearly an important part of natural language understanding that benefits a wide range of natural language applications