#CLaC Discourse Parser

CLaC Discourse Parser is a discourse parser based on the UIMA framework. We used ClearTK to add machine learning functionality to the UIMA framework for this parser. CLaC Discourse Parser participated in CoNLL Shared Task 2015 and achieves achieves a result of 17.3 F1 on the identification of discourse relations on the blind CoNLL-2015 test set, ranking in sixth place. For more information please consult with:

Majid Laali, Elnaz Davoodi, and Leila Kosseim (2015). The CLaC Discourse Parser at CoNLL-2015 . In Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task. Beijing, China.

Requires JDK 1.7 or higher, Maven 3.0 or higher and Python 2.6 or higher.

Quick Start

1. git clone --recursive git@github.com:mjlaali/CLaCDiscourseParser.git
2. cd CLaCDiscourseParser/discourse.parser.parent/
3. mvn clean install package dependency:copy-dependencies
4. cp -r <SHARED-TASK-DATE> discourse.conll.dataset/data/
5. discourse.parser.evaluation/test.sh dev outputs/dev
6. python discourse.conll.dataset/data/validator/scorer2.sh discourse.conll.dataset/data/conll15st-train-dev/conll15st_data/conll15-st-03-04-15-dev/pdtb-data.json outputs/dev/pdtb-data.json

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