# Joint Syntacto-Discourse Parsing and the Syntacto-Discourse Treebank

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.08484 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1708.08484/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 28 Aug 2017.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [A Conditional Splitting Framework for Efficient Constituency Parsing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.15760/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Discourse parsing has long been treated as a stand-alone problem independent from constituency or dependency parsing. Most attempts at this problem are pipelined rather than end-to-end, sophisticated, and not self-contained: they assume gold-standard text segmentations (Elementary Discourse Units), and use external parsers for syntactic features. In this paper we propose the first end-to-end discourse parser that jointly parses in both syntax and discourse levels, as well as the first syntacto-discourse treebank by integrating the Penn Treebank with the RST Treebank. Built upon our recent span-based constituency parser, this joint syntacto-discourse parser requires no preprocessing whatsoever (such as segmentation or feature extraction), achieves the state-of-the-art end-to-end discourse parsing accuracy.