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RST-DT (RST Discourse Treebank)

21 Feb 2002 archive 2025-07-28

The Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) Discourse Treebank consists of 385 Wall Street Journal articles from the Penn Treebank annotated with discourse structure in the RST framework along with human-generated extracts and abstracts associated with the source documents.

In the RST framework (Mann and Thompson, 1988), a text's discourse structure can be represented as a tree in four aspects:

(1) the leaves correspond to text fragments called elementary discourse units (the mininal discourse units); (2) the internal nodes of the tree correspond to contiguous text spans; (3) each node is characterized by its nuclearity, or essential unit of information; and (4) each node is also characterized by a rhetorical relation between two or more non-overlapping, adjacent text spans.

Data

The data in this release is divided into a training set (347 documents) and a test set (38 documents). All annotations were produced using a discourse annotation tool that can be downloaded from http://www.isi.edu/~marcu/discourse.

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 2 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Discourse Parsing RST-DT Bottom-up Llama 2 (70B) Standard Parseval (Full) 58.1 Can we obtain significant success in RST discourse... nttcslab-nlp/rstparser_eacl24 40 Compare
End-to-End RST Parsing RST-DT DMRST + ToNy + E-BiLSTM Standard Parseval (Full) 53.0 ± 0.7 Bilingual Rhetorical Structure Parsing with Large... tchewik/bilingualrsp 4 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

21 shown of 21 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 23. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Bilingual Rhetorical Structure Parsing with Large Parallel Annotations 1 2 23 Sep 2024 not harvested
Can we obtain significant success in RST discourse parsing by using Large Language Models? 1 6 8 Mar 2024 ran 0 of 2 samples (2 unverified; 2 pointer-only for licence)
A Simple and Strong Baseline for End-to-End Neural RST-style Discourse Parsing 1 10 15 Oct 2022 not harvested
DMRST: A Joint Framework for Document-Level Multilingual RST Discourse Segmentation and Parsing 1 2 9 Oct 2021 ran 1 of 1 samples (0 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence)
Improving Neural RST Parsing Model with Silver Agreement Subtrees 0 2 1 Jun 2021 not harvested
RST Parsing from Scratch 1 3 23 May 2021 not harvested
Top-down Discourse Parsing via Sequence Labelling 1 4 3 Feb 2021 not harvested
Unleashing the Power of Neural Discourse Parsers - A Context and Structure Aware Approach Using Large Scale Pretraining 0 1 1 Dec 2020 not harvested
Unleashing the Power of Neural Discourse Parsers -- A Context and Structure Aware Approach Using Large Scale Pretraining 0 2 6 Nov 2020 not harvested
Top-Down RST Parsing Utilizing Granularity Levels in Documents 1 1 3 Apr 2020 not harvested
Transition-based Neural RST Parsing with Implicit Syntax Features 1 1 1 Aug 2018 not harvested
A Two-Stage Parsing Method for Text-Level Discourse Analysis 1 1 1 Jul 2017 not harvested
Cross-lingual RST Discourse Parsing 1 1 11 Jan 2017 not harvested
Multi-view and multi-task training of RST discourse parsers 1 1 1 Dec 2016 not harvested
Discourse Parsing with Attention-based Hierarchical Neural Networks 0 1 1 Nov 2016 not harvested
Empirical comparison of dependency conversions for RST discourse trees 0 1 1 Sep 2016 not harvested
CODRA: A Novel Discriminative Framework for Rhetorical Analysis 0 1 1 Sep 2015 not harvested
Two Practical Rhetorical Structure Theory Parsers 0 1 1 Jun 2015 not harvested
Representation Learning for Text-level Discourse Parsing 1 1 1 Jun 2014 not harvested
A Linear-Time Bottom-Up Discourse Parser with Constraints and Post-Editing 0 1 1 Jun 2014 not harvested
A Novel Discourse Parser Based on Support Vector Machine Classification 0 1 2 Aug 2009 not harvested

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

Discourse ParsingEnd-to-End RST Parsing

License archive 2025-07-28

LDC

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

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Languages archive 2025-07-28

English

Variants archive 2025-07-28

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