@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2016-inferring,
    title = "Inferring Discourse Relations from {PDTB}-style Discourse Labels for Argumentative Revision Classification",
    author = "Zhang, Fan  and
      Litman, Diane  and
      Forbes Riley, Katherine",
    editor = "Matsumoto, Yuji  and
      Prasad, Rashmi",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of {COLING} 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers",
    month = dec,
    year = "2016",
    address = "Osaka, Japan",
    publisher = "The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Author-page-Marten-During-lu/C16-1246/",
    pages = "2615--2624",
    abstract = "Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB)-style annotation focuses on labeling local discourse relations between text spans and typically ignores larger discourse contexts. In this paper we propose two approaches to infer discourse relations in a paragraph-level context from annotated PDTB labels. We investigate the utility of inferring such discourse information using the task of revision classification. Experimental results demonstrate that the inferred information can significantly improve classification performance compared to baselines, not only when PDTB annotation comes from humans but also from automatic parsers."
}