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Abstract: Compared w it h ot her t ypes of annot at ion, discourse-st ructure annot at ion is a new comer. How ever, considerable achievement s have been
made in t his new area. Now , a discourse-tagged corpus containing 385 document s select ed f rom t he Penn T reebank has been built in the framework of

R het orical St ructure T heory by a research group from In formation Science Instit ute, U niversity of Southern California. It is a large- scale hierarchically

annot at ed ref erence corpus w it h high quality and consist ency. Building such a corpus not only est ablishes a theoret ical syst em f or discourse- st ruct ure anno-
t at ion, but also opens up new f ields t o apply discourse st ruct ures. This article is a review of t he major achievement s in establishing such a corpus.

Key Words: Rhet orical Struct ure Theory; discourse st ruct ure; annot at ion

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