@InProceedings{prasad-forbesriley-lee:2017:W17-55,
  author    = {Prasad, Rashmi  and  Forbes-Riley, Katherine  and  Lee, Alan},
  title     = {Towards Full Text Shallow Discourse Relation Annotation: Experiments with Cross-Paragraph Implicit Relations in the PDTB},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Saarbrücken, Germany},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {7--16},
  abstract  = {Full text discourse parsing relies on texts comprehensively annotated with
	discourse relations. 
	To this end, we address a significant gap in the inter-sentential discourse
	relations annotated in the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB), namely the class of
	cross-paragraph implicit relations, which account for 30% of inter-sentential
	relations in the corpus. We present our annotation study to explore the
	incidence rate of adjacent vs. non-adjacent implicit relations in
	cross-paragraph contexts, and the relative degree of difficulty in annotating
	them. Our experiments show a high incidence of non-adjacent relations that are
	difficult to annotate reliably, suggesting the practicality of backing off from
	their annotation to reduce noise for corpus-based studies. Our resulting
	guidelines follow the PDTB adjacency constraint for implicits while employing
	an underspecified representation of non-adjacent implicits, and yield 62%
	inter-annotator agreement on this task.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/W17-5502}
}