From News to Medical: Cross-domain Discourse Segmentation

Elisa Ferracane, Titan Page, Junyi Jessy Li, Katrin Erk


Abstract
The first step in discourse analysis involves dividing a text into segments. We annotate the first high-quality small-scale medical corpus in English with discourse segments and analyze how well news-trained segmenters perform on this domain. While we expectedly find a drop in performance, the nature of the segmentation errors suggests some problems can be addressed earlier in the pipeline, while others would require expanding the corpus to a trainable size to learn the nuances of the medical domain.
Anthology ID:
W19-2704
Volume:
Proceedings of the Workshop on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking 2019
Month:
June
Year:
2019
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Minneapolis, MN
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NAACL | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
22–29
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W19-2704
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-2704
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Elisa Ferracane, Titan Page, Junyi Jessy Li, and Katrin Erk. 2019. From News to Medical: Cross-domain Discourse Segmentation. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking 2019, pages 22–29, Minneapolis, MN. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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From News to Medical: Cross-domain Discourse Segmentation (Ferracane et al., 2019)
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