Chinese Discourse Relation Semantic Taxonomy and Annotation

Discourse Relation is an important part of discourse semantic analysis.This paper analyses the differences between Chinese and English discourses,then presents the first Chinese discourse relation taxonomy based on the English discourse relation researches in details.Aiming at the rationality of the hierarchy,we conducts annotation experiments on Chinese internet news texts and analyses all difficulties happened during the data annotation together with the resolution to lay a foundation for the future discourse semantic analysis.