VarNDrr

Source code for "variational neural discourse relation recognizer"

If you use this code, please cite our paper:

@InProceedings{zhang-EtAl:2016:EMNLP20161,
  author    = {Zhang, Biao  and  Xiong, Deyi  and  su, jinsong  and  Liu, Qun  and  Ji, Rongrong  and  Duan, Hong  and  Zhang, Min},
  title     = {Variational Neural Discourse Relation Recognizer},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  month     = {November},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Austin, Texas},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {382--391},
  url       = {https://aclweb.org/anthology/D16-1037}
}

How to prepare dataset

We provide a simple demo case in the data/demo directory.

How to Run?

Simply Run

run.sh

That's all!

Notice that we only provide the processed dataset for relation "Comparison", because the PDTB dataset is not freely available!

For any comments or questions, please email Biao Zhang.