A discourse containing one or more sentences describes daily issues and events for people
to communicate their thoughts and opinions. As sentences are normally consist of multiple …

A central issue in linguistics concerns the relationship between theories and evidence in
data. We investigate this issue in the field of discourse coherence, and particularly the study …

When readers comprehend a discourse, they do not merely interpret each clause or
sentence separately; rather, they assign meaning to the text by creating semantic links …

In past studies, the few quantitative approaches to discourse structure were mostly confined
to the presentation of the frequency of discourse relations. However, quantitative …

The notion of genre has been widely explored using quantitative methods from both lexical
and syntactical perspectives. However, discourse structure has rarely been used to examine …

Combining the annotation strengths of PDTB and RST, this study constructs a specialized
Chinese discourse corpus on “run-on” sentences.“Run-on” sentences are a typical and …

Chinese is a discourse-oriented language.“Run-on” sentences (liushui ju) are a typical and
prevalent form of discourse in Chinese. These sentences show the capacity of the Chinese …