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"text": "Modelwise, the most common approach to infer discourse trees is the linear bottom-up shiftreduce method, adopted from syntactic parsing. Wang et al. (2017) uses hand-crafted features and the shift-reduce method predicted by two separate Support-Vector-Machines (SVMs) for structureand nuclearity-prediction and relation-estimation. The neural model by Yu et al. (2018) uses a similar topology, but instead relies entirely on LSTMs for automatic feature extraction and on a single multilayer-perceptron (MLP) for classifying all possible actions. Top-down approaches to discourse parsing are also quite promising, with recent work of Kobayashi et al. (2020) applying ELMO (Peters et al., 2018) for computing span representations and achieving the new absolute SOTA performance, reporting however the scores of an ensemble of five independent runs of their proposed model instead of single-model results. In this work we follow the shift-reduce strategy and apply SpanBERT-Base (Joshi et al., 2020; Wolf et al., 2020 ), which we introduce below, for encoding the document contents.",
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"text": "In an attempt to shed some light on the results, we compare the predicted and gold subtree from one of the documents in our development set on Figure 3 . The trees were analyzed using the RST tree visualization tool by Huber (2019) . According to Veins theory, the pronoun [neither] in EDU 8 is a mention that should have access to its mentions ([Finnair and SAS] or [they]) in preceding EDUs. However, accoding to the discourse structure predicted by SpanBERT-NoCoref, the vein for node (8) does not contain the EDUs (6) and 7(and in fact any of its preceding EDUs), so that [neither] cannot be linked to any of its preceding mentions. On the other hand, according to the gold discourse structure, EDU 8 has EDU 7 on its vein, meaning that this anaphora can be resolved. This means that if one had access to gold coreference structure and applied Veins Theory strictly, the substructure produced by SpanBERT-NoCoref would not be permitted.",
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