A Multi-Task and Multi-Label Classification Model for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition

We address the inherent ambiguity in Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition (IDRR) by introducing a novel multi-task classification model capable of learning both multi-label and single-label representations of discourse relations. Our model is trained exclusively on the DiscoGeM corpus and evaluated both on the DiscoGeM and the PDTB 3.0 corpus. We establish the first benchmark on multi-label IDRR classification and achieve SOTA results on single-label IDRR classification using the DiscoGeM corpus. Finally, we present the first evaluation on the potential of transfer learning between the DiscoGeM and the PDTB 3.0 corpus on single-label IDRR classification.