distributional semantics has had enormous empirical success in Computational
Linguistics and Cognitive Science in modeling various semantic phenomena, such
as semantic similarity, and distributional models are widely used in
state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing systems. However
本文提出了一种计算分布式含义表示的方法来解决自动识别篇章关系的难题。我们通过结合句子的句法解析树，并使用一种新颖的向下组成算法，计算实体提及的含义表示。这种方法不仅可以预测句子间的篇章关系，还可以预测它们的指代实体提及之间的关系，并在 Penn Discourse Treebank 上取得了优越的表现。