RST-DT

RST Discourse Treebank

Dataset Information
Languages
English
Introduced
2002
License
LDC
Homepage
Official Website
Contents

Overview

The Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) Discourse Treebank consists of 385 Wall Street Journal articles
from the Penn Treebank annotated with discourse structure in the RST framework along with
human-generated extracts and abstracts associated with the source documents.

In the RST framework (Mann and Thompson, 1988), a text's discourse structure can be
represented as a tree in four aspects:

(1) the leaves correspond to text fragments called elementary discourse units (the mininal discourse units);
(2) the internal nodes of the tree correspond to contiguous text spans;
(3) each node is characterized by its nuclearity, or essential unit of information; and
(4) each node is also characterized by a rhetorical relation between two or more non-overlapping, adjacent text spans.

Data

The data in this release is divided into a training set (347 documents) and a test set (38 documents).
All annotations were produced using a discourse annotation tool that can be downloaded from http://www.isi.edu/~marcu/discourse.

Variants: RST-DT

Associated Benchmarks

This dataset is used in 1 benchmark:

  • Discourse Parsing - Metrics: Standard Parseval (Full), Standard Parseval (Span), Standard Parseval (Nuclearity), Standard Parseval (Relation), RST-Parseval (Full), RST-Parseval (Span), RST-Parseval (Nuclearity), RST-Parseval (Relation)

Recent Benchmark Submissions

Task Model Paper Date
Discourse Parsing DMRST Bilingual Rhetorical Structure Parsing with … 2024-09-23
Discourse Parsing Top-down Llama 2 (13B) Can we obtain significant success … 2024-03-08
Discourse Parsing Bottom-up Llama 2 (7B) Can we obtain significant success … 2024-03-08
Discourse Parsing Top-down Llama 2 (7B) Can we obtain significant success … 2024-03-08
Discourse Parsing Bottom-up Llama 2 (70B) Can we obtain significant success … 2024-03-08
Discourse Parsing Bottom-up Llama 2 (13B) Can we obtain significant success … 2024-03-08
Discourse Parsing Top-down Llama 2 (70B) Can we obtain significant success … 2024-03-08
Discourse Parsing Top-down (SpanBERT) A Simple and Strong Baseline … 2022-10-15
Discourse Parsing Bottom-up (SpanBERT) A Simple and Strong Baseline … 2022-10-15
Discourse Parsing Bottom-up (DeBERTa) A Simple and Strong Baseline … 2022-10-15
Discourse Parsing Top-down (XLNet) A Simple and Strong Baseline … 2022-10-15
Discourse Parsing Top-down (DeBERTa) A Simple and Strong Baseline … 2022-10-15
Discourse Parsing Bottom-up (XLNet) A Simple and Strong Baseline … 2022-10-15
Discourse Parsing Top-down (RoBERTa) A Simple and Strong Baseline … 2022-10-15
Discourse Parsing Bottom-up (RoBERTa) A Simple and Strong Baseline … 2022-10-15
Discourse Parsing Top-down (BERT) A Simple and Strong Baseline … 2022-10-15
Discourse Parsing Bottom-up (BERT) A Simple and Strong Baseline … 2022-10-15
Discourse Parsing End-to-end Top-down (Glove) RST Parsing from Scratch 2021-05-23
Discourse Parsing End-to-end Top-down (XLNet) RST Parsing from Scratch 2021-05-23
Discourse Parsing Transformer (static) Top-down Discourse Parsing via Sequence … 2021-02-03

Research Papers

Recent papers with results on this dataset:

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