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Discovery

Introduced by Damien Sileo et al. in Mining Discourse Markers for Unsupervised Sentence Representation Learning28 Mar 2019 archive 2025-07-28

The Discovery datasets consists of adjacent sentence pairs (s1,s2) with a discourse marker (y) that occurred at the beginning of s2. They were extracted from the depcc web corpus.

Markers prediction can be used in order to train a sentence encoders. Discourse markers can be considered as noisy labels for various semantic tasks, such as entailment (y=therefore), subjectivity analysis (y=personally) or sentiment analysis (y=sadly), similarity (y=similarly), typicality, (y=curiously) ...

The specificity of this dataset is the diversity of the markers, since previously used data used only ~10 imbalanced classes. The author of the dataset provide:

  • a list of the 174 discourse markers
  • a Base version of the dataset with 1.74 million pairs (10k examples per marker)
  • a Big version with 3.4 million pairs
  • a Hard version with 1.74 million pairs where the connective couldn't be predicted with a fastText linear model

Source: GitHub

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Relation Classification Discovery BERT 1:1 Accuracy 20.6 Mining Discourse Markers for Unsupervised Sentence... synapse-developpement/Discovery 1 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

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DateSamples run Syntology
Mining Discourse Markers for Unsupervised Sentence Representation Learning 1 1 28 Mar 2019 not harvested

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