Discourse Parsing

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

10 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

3 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 57 papers with code (189 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• The Change that Matters in Discourse Parsing: Estimating the Impact of Domain Shift on Parser Error
  21 Mar 2022 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 5 samples · 3 unverified
  Our results not only motivate our proposal and help us to understand its limitations, but also provide insight on the properties of discourse models and datasets which improve performance in domain adaptation.
• Fast Rhetorical Structure Theory Discourse Parsing
  10 May 2015 4 repositories listed
  In recent years, There has been a variety of research on discourse parsing, particularly RST discourse parsing.
• ABCD: A Graph Framework to Convert Complex Sentences to a Covering Set of Simple Sentences
  22 Jun 2021 2 repositories listed
  On DeSSE, which has a more even balance of complex sentence types, our model achieves higher accuracy on the number of atomic sentences than an encoder-decoder baseline.
• A Unified Linear-Time Framework for Sentence-Level Discourse Parsing
  14 May 2019 2 repositories listed
  We propose an efficient neural framework for sentence-level discourse analysis in accordance with Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST).
• CoMuMDR: Code-mixed Multi-modal Multi-domain corpus for Discourse paRsing in conversations
  10 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  Discourse parsing is an important task useful for NLU applications such as summarization, machine comprehension, and emotion recognition.
• GDTB: Genre Diverse Data for English Shallow Discourse Parsing across Modalities, Text Types, and Domains
  1 Nov 2024 1 repository listed
  Work on shallow discourse parsing in English has focused on the Wall Street Journal corpus, the only large-scale dataset for the language in the PDTB framework.
• Bilingual Rhetorical Structure Parsing with Large Parallel Annotations
  23 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  Discourse parsing is a crucial task in natural language processing that aims to reveal the higher-level relations in a text.
• Unsupervised Mutual Learning of Dialogue Discourse Parsing and Topic Segmentation
  30 May 2024 1 repository listed
  The interaction between these two structures has not been considered for joint modeling and mutual learning.
• Can we obtain significant success in RST discourse parsing by using Large Language Models?
  8 Mar 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 2 samples · 2 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  Recently, decoder-only pre-trained large language models (LLMs), with several tens of billion parameters, have significantly impacted a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks.
• Prompt-based Logical Semantics Enhancement for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition
  1 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  Essentially, our method seamlessly injects knowledge relevant to discourse relation into pre-trained language models through prompt-based connective prediction.
• QUDEVAL: The Evaluation of Questions Under Discussion Discourse Parsing
  23 Oct 2023 1 repository listed
  Questions Under Discussion (QUD) is a versatile linguistic framework in which discourse progresses as continuously asking questions and answering them.
• What's Hard in English RST Parsing? Predictive Models for Error Analysis
  10 Sep 2023 1 repository listed
  Despite recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), hierarchical discourse parsing in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory remains challenging, and our understanding of the reasons for this are as yet…
• Structured Dialogue Discourse Parsing
  26 Jun 2023 1 repository listed
  In addition, unlike in previous work, we do not rely on hand-crafted features; this improves the model's robustness.
• GENTLE: A Genre-Diverse Multilayer Challenge Set for English NLP and Linguistic Evaluation
  3 Jun 2023 1 repository listed
  We evaluate state-of-the-art NLP systems on GENTLE and find severe degradation for at least some genres in their performance on all tasks, which indicates GENTLE's utility as an evaluation dataset for NLP systems.
• Advancing Topic Segmentation and Outline Generation in Chinese Texts: The Paragraph-level Topic Representation, Corpus, and Benchmark
  24 May 2023 1 repository listed
  Topic segmentation and outline generation strive to divide a document into coherent topic sections and generate corresponding subheadings, unveiling the discourse topic structure of a document.
• Uncovering the Potential of ChatGPT for Discourse Analysis in Dialogue: An Empirical Study
  15 May 2023 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we aim to systematically inspect ChatGPT's performance in two discourse analysis tasks: topic segmentation and discourse parsing, focusing on its deep semantic understanding of linear and hierarchical…
• Why Can't Discourse Parsing Generalize? A Thorough Investigation of the Impact of Data Diversity
  13 Feb 2023 1 repository listed
  To our knowledge, this study is the first to fully evaluate cross-corpus RST parsing generalizability on complete trees, examine between-genre degradation within an RST corpus, and investigate the impact of genre…
• GCDT: A Chinese RST Treebank for Multigenre and Multilingual Discourse Parsing
  19 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  A lack of large-scale human-annotated data has hampered the hierarchical discourse parsing of Chinese.
• A Simple and Strong Baseline for End-to-End Neural RST-style Discourse Parsing
  15 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  To promote and further develop RST-style discourse parsing models, we need a strong baseline that can be regarded as a reference for reporting reliable experimental results.
• A Distance-Aware Multi-Task Framework for Conversational Discourse Parsing
  1 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  Conversational discourse parsing aims to construct an implicit utterance dependency tree to reflect the turn-taking in a multi-party conversation.
• Speaker-Aware Discourse Parsing on Multi-Party Dialogues
  1 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  It is believed that speaker interactions are helpful for this task.
• RST Discourse Parsing with Second-Stage EDU-Level Pre-training
  1 May 2022 1 repository listed
  Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have shown great potentials in natural language processing (NLP) including rhetorical structure theory (RST) discourse parsing.
• STEM: Unsupervised STructural EMbedding for Stance Detection
  1 Dec 2021 1 repository listed
  Our framework is unsupervised and domain-independent.
• discopy: A Neural System for Shallow Discourse Parsing
  1 Nov 2021 1 repository listed
  This paper demonstrates discopy, a novel framework that makes it easy to design components for end-to-end shallow discourse parsing.
• DMRST: A Joint Framework for Document-Level Multilingual RST Discourse Segmentation and Parsing
  9 Oct 2021 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  While previous work significantly improves the performance of RST discourse parsing, they are not readily applicable to practical use cases: (1) EDU segmentation is not integrated into most existing tree parsing…
• Improving Multi-Party Dialogue Discourse Parsing via Domain Integration
  9 Oct 2021 1 repository listed
  While multi-party conversations are often less structured than monologues and documents, they are implicitly organized by semantic level correlations across the interactive turns, and dialogue discourse analysis can be…
• Multi-tasking Dialogue Comprehension with Discourse Parsing
  7 Oct 2021 1 repository listed
  Multi-party dialogue machine reading comprehension (MRC) raises an even more challenging understanding goal on dialogue with more than two involved speakers, compared with the traditional plain passage style MRC.
• DisCoDisCo at the DISRPT2021 Shared Task: A System for Discourse Segmentation, Classification, and Connective Detection
  20 Sep 2021 1 repository listed
  This paper describes our submission to the DISRPT2021 Shared Task on Discourse Unit Segmentation, Connective Detection, and Relation Classification.
• A Structure Self-Aware Model for Discourse Parsing on Multi-Party Dialogues
  1 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  Conversational discourse structures aim to describe how a dialogue is organised, thus they are helpful for dialogue understanding and response generation.
• Persian Rhetorical Structure Theory
  25 Jun 2021 1 repository listed
  Over the past years, interest in discourse analysis and discourse parsing has steadily grown, and many discourse-annotated corpora and, as a result, discourse parsers have been built.

Syntology lines on 3 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.