Elementary Discourse Unit

Elementary Discourse Units (EDUs) are the smallest units of discourse that convey a coherent meaning, lying between individual words and full sentences. Current research focuses on leveraging EDUs to improve various natural language processing tasks, such as text summarization and fake news detection, by using them as building blocks for more accurate and nuanced text representations. This involves developing models that utilize EDUs within both extractive and abstractive summarization techniques, often incorporating graph-based or sequence-based approaches to capture both local and global text structure. The improved understanding and utilization of EDUs promises advancements in text analysis and generation, leading to more effective and reliable applications across diverse fields.