Caroline Sporleder and Mirella Lapata. 2005. Discourse Chunking and its Application to Sentence Compression. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 257-264. Vancouver.

In this paper we consider the problem of analysing sentence-level discourse structure. We introduce discourse chunking (i.e., the identification of intra-sentential nucleus and satellite spans) as an alternative to full-scale discourse parsing. Our experiments show that the proposed modelling approach yields results comparable to state-of-the-art while exploiting knowledge-lean features and small amounts of discourse annotations.We also demonstrate how discourse chunking can be successfully applied to a sentence compression task.

@InProceedings{Sporleder:Lapata:05,
  author =       {Caroline Sporleder and Mirella Lapata},
  title =        {Discourse Chunking and its Application to Sentence Compression},
  crossref =     {EMNLP:05},
  pages =        {257--264}
}

@Proceedings{EMNLP:05,
  title =        {Proceedings of the HLT/EMNLP},
  booktitle =    {Proceedings of the HLT/EMNLP},
  address =      {Vancouver},
  year =         2005
}