The CLaC Discourse Parser at CoNLL-2016

no code implementations • CONLL 2016 • Majid Laali, Andre Cianflone, Leila Kosseim

This paper describes our submission "CLaC" to the CoNLL-2016 shared task on shallow discourse parsing.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Discourse Parsing

The CLaC Discourse Parser at CoNLL-2015

1 code implementation • CONLL 2015 • Majid Laali, Elnaz Davoodi, Leila Kosseim

This paper describes our submission (kosseim15) to the CoNLL-2015 shared task on shallow discourse parsing.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Discourse Parsing

Improving Discourse Relation Projection to Build Discourse Annotated Corpora

1 code implementation • RANLP 2017 • Majid Laali, Leila Kosseim

We then used this corpus to train a classifier to identify the discourse-usage of French discourse connectives and show a 15% improvement of F1-score compared to the classifier trained on the non-filtered annotations.

Relation Translation +1

Automatic Mapping of French Discourse Connectives to PDTB Discourse Relations

1 code implementation • WS 2017 • 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.

Machine Translation Translation

Automatic Disambiguation of French Discourse Connectives

1 code implementation • 18 Apr 2017 • Majid Laali, Leila Kosseim

Discourse connectives (e. g. however, because) are terms that can explicitly convey a discourse relation within a text.

Inducing Discourse Connectives from Parallel Texts

no code implementations • COLING 2014 • Majid Laali, Leila Kosseim

Machine Translation Word Alignment