Neural network based deep learning methods aim to learn representations of data and have produced state-of-the-art results in many natural language processing(NLP)tasks.Discourse parsing is an important research topic...Neural network based deep learning methods aim to learn representations of data and have produced state-of-the-art results in many natural language processing(NLP)tasks.Discourse parsing is an important research topic in discourse analysis,aiming to infer the discourse structure and model the coherence of a given text.This survey covers text-level discourse parsing,shallow discourse parsing and coherence assessment.We first introduce the basic concepts and traditional approaches,and then focus on recent advances in discourse structure oriented representation learning.We also introduce a trend of discourse structure aware representation learning that is to exploit discourse structures or discourse objectives for learning representations of sentences and documents for specific applications or for general purpose.Finally,we present a brief summary of the progress and discuss several future directions.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61876113 and 61876112)the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.4192017)+1 种基金the Support Project of High-level Teachers in Beijing Municipal Universities in the Period of 13th Five-year Plan(Grant No.CIT&TCD20170322)the Capacity Building for Sci-Tech Innovation-Fundamental Scientific Research Funds。
文摘Neural network based deep learning methods aim to learn representations of data and have produced state-of-the-art results in many natural language processing(NLP)tasks.Discourse parsing is an important research topic in discourse analysis,aiming to infer the discourse structure and model the coherence of a given text.This survey covers text-level discourse parsing,shallow discourse parsing and coherence assessment.We first introduce the basic concepts and traditional approaches,and then focus on recent advances in discourse structure oriented representation learning.We also introduce a trend of discourse structure aware representation learning that is to exploit discourse structures or discourse objectives for learning representations of sentences and documents for specific applications or for general purpose.Finally,we present a brief summary of the progress and discuss several future directions.