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    "title": "Do Sentence Embeddings Capture Discourse Properties of Sentences from Scientific Abstracts ?",
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                "text": "Coherence detection Representations build from BoV fail at predicting if units have been swapped (51% 10 ), and perform badly for predicting if units have been scrambled (\u2248 51.9%). Google Universal Sentence Encoder improves swapped only by 10% and scrambled by 4%. Representations built from contextual embeddings improve accuracy for swapped by almost 26% for BERT and 27.5% for SciBERT and for scrambled by almost 25% for BERT and 27.8% for SciBERT. This shows that training on STS, on which Google USE is trained, is not enough to capture coherence links between clauses, and that the \"Next Sentence Prediction\" (NSP) task on which both BERT and SciBERT are trained seems indeed to help a lot. This task enables somehow to account for the order of the units in the sentence. Even if BERT and SciBERT are not trained at clause level, the corpus on which they are trained is large and therefore contains a large number of sentences that are made of a single clause. This enables the model to learn clause level contingency relations, which are in fact the task that we probe here. binRel semRel BERT-BoV SciBERT-BoV SciBERT-BoV BERT-BoV SciBERT-BoV SciBERT -BoV  # common predictions  196  205  223  97  66  73  # different predictions  94  85  67  47  78  71  # common errors  162  175  180  64  54  73   Table 4 : Two-by-two comparison of the predictions obtained by different encoders for binRel and semRel.",
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                "text": "However, good performances of BoV for this task are influenced by the fact that most of them are linguistically signalled. Even if this bias is in fact related to the specific genre of the corpus that we study, we discuss here the linguistic properties that play a role in the various encodings and predictions.",
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                "text": "Verbs such as \"we show\" or \"we demonstrate\" typically occur in sentences which contain an attribution relation. Conjunctions such as \"to\" or \"in order to\" express enablement relations. Finally, manner-means are often signalled by verb forms such as \"(by) +ing\". We think that these signals play an important role in the good performances of BoV especially for attribution and manner-means.",
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                "text": "Manner-means The sentence \"Most sentence embedding models typically represent each sentence only using word surface, which makes these models indiscriminate for ubiquitous homonymy and polysemy\" is a typical example of the sentences whose relation is predicted well with BoV encoders but neither by BERT, which predicts an attribution, nor by SciBERT, which predicts noRel. The verb \"using\" seem to be responsible for this good prediction. This underlies the good recall that BoV gets for the prediction of this DR, which gets a very bad recall for BERT and SciB-ERT. nated ] 4.\" is well predicted by all encoders, except SciBERT. Here, the captured relationship is a manner-means between units 3 and 4, which is in fact the deepest DR in the full structure of the sentence, and thus the less important. The second part (3+4) of the sentence is in conjunction with the first (1+2) and refers to it. The manner-means between 3 and 4 is thus not the more salient in the RST, but is however well predicted. This suggests that the choices that we did to ignore non-logical DRs work well and that the training made on sufficient data suffice to make the classifier focus on the relations that we consider.",
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                "text": "Swapped and scrambled We admit that the tasks designed for probing coherence are somehow arbitrary, and produces different biases that could be better controlled. We present two major issues, and propose solutions for future work. The first issue concerns the swapped task, where modifications of sentences may produce other coherent sentences, which are thus tagged as incoherent in the training set and used as it by the classifier. Those cases specifically correspond to sentences that are formed by two DUs and linked by a particle (such as \"by\", \"for\" or \"to\"), which are thus swapped and still coherent. For example, the sentence \"[By incorporating textual information,][RCM can effectively deal with data sparseness problem.]\" becomes \"[RCM can effectively deal with data sparseness problem][by incorporating textual information.]\". We expect such sentences to be poorly predicted, but it is not the case, showing that BERT and SciBERT probably rely on other indices. also created acceptable sentences for three of their probing tasks, and filtered them by crowd-sourcing, asking people to rate sentences according to their acceptability. This method would be the best suited to solve this issue, as it may be hard to control coherence automatically with syntactic parsers.",
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                "text": "Secondly, we did not ensure that the property captured does not rely on syntax, because sentence modifications may also produce sentences that are syntactically incorrect and that we did not filter out. Here the problematic cases mostly come from two clauses sentences containing a conjunction such as \"that\" or \"and\". For example the sentence \"[We present a human judgments dataset] [and an adapted metric for evaluation of Arabic machine translation.]\" becomes \"[And an adapted metric for evaluation of Arabic machine translation] [we present a human judgments dataset.]\", thus being obviously syntactically incorrect, and possibly captured as incoherent based on this syntactic property. A possible solution to that issue could be to forbid the swap of the first and last DU, thus inducing another different bias and in our case reducing the size of the corpus. Another possibility is to introduce rules based on the syntactic tree of new sentences in order to filter those cases. In this preliminary work, we introduced the second coherence detection task (scrambled) with the aim of reducing those biases.",
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                "text": "We introduced four tasks for probing the discourse properties involved in sentences from scientific abstracts. We evaluated the ability of a classifier to predict a discourse property of a sentence from its embedding. The performance of the classifier highlights the extent to which discourse properties are encoded in those representations.",
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                "text": "We showed that coherence links are captured by vectors made from contextual models, as well as DRs, but that those models in fact do not encode the semantics of those DRs. We highlighted that BoV embeddings perform nearly as good as contextual embeddings for both DRs detection tasks, highlighting the fact that these relations are most of the time explicitly signalled in scientific abstracts.",
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                "text": "This confirms our hypothesis that BERT and SciBERT training suffice to encode coherence to some extent. We think that the Next Sentence Prediction task is the reason for this performance, as it allows the model to learn adjacency properties of sentences, and thus of clauses. The second hypothesis however is not confirmed, as we concluded from the experiments that semantics of DRs are as well captured by BoV, as BERT or SciBERT.",
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                "text": "The present work opens various possibilities, for improving the tasks as well as the analysis of the results. We decided here to focus on the detection of three specific relations that occur within sentences. We adopted strategies to make this possible, for example by ignoring DRs that are of continuation or additive and not logical. We could however go further by considering all relations involved in the sentences. A multi-label classification could be a solution to the problem of predicting all DRs of a sentence from its embedding. A Sequence-to-Sequence model could be a solution to the problem of predicting the discourse structure (or sequence of relations) from its embedding. For coherence prediction, we also plan to determine to what extent the tasks we introduced (swapped and scrambled) depend on syntactic properties. A statistical analysis of the syntactic structures involved could help to clarify the possible biases coming from the syntax. We also plan to further check the datasets that we introduce for those tasks, as we have raised that our method created coherent sentences, labeled as incoherent in our training dataset.",
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