RAG-RST: Retrieved Exemplars as In-Context Discourse Schema for RST Parsing

RAG‑RST is a retrieval‑augmented framework that supplies a formal discourse schema as in‑context demonstrations for Rhetorical Structure Theory parsing. By retrieving exemplar EDU pairs, it improves nuclearity F1 from 0.794 to 0.846 and relation F1 from 0.738 to 0.788 without any training. Two configurations—precomputed and dynamic—both outperform existing RST parsers, with the dynamic variant consistently strongest, and the approach shows that a formal linguistic schema can be provided to a foundation model as a demonstration rather than encoded in its parameters.

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