The DCU Discourse Parser: A Sense Classification Task

This paper describes the discourse parsing system developed at Dublin City University for participation in the CoNLL 2015 shared task. We participated in two tasks: a connective and argument identification task and a sense classification task. This paper focuses on the latter task and especially the sense classification for implicit connectives.

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