ESURF: Simple and Effective EDU Segmentation

A fundamental task in natural language understanding Despite the successes of contextualized pretrained is analyzing the overall structure of a text, language models (PLMs) like XLNet (Yang so that logical and coherence relations between et al., 2020) in RST discourse parsing, challenges text units are revealed. Rhetorical Structure Theory remain due to data insufficiency, reliance on lexical (RST) (Mann and Thompson, 1988) is a wellacccepted and syntactic clues, and inconsistencies between theoretical framework for the task within EDU-level parsing and sentence-level contextual the NLP community (Kobayashi et al., 2020).