Abstract：Discourse Relation Recognition is one important part of discourse analysis. This paper focused on Chinese discourse relation recognition, including explicit discourse relation recognition and implicit discourse relation recognition. For explicit discourse relation recognition, we proposed a statistical method based on discourse connectives rules which got rather good results. For implicit discourse relation recognition, we combined lexical, syntactic and semantic features in a supervised model to classify implicit relations. The detail analysis and experiment results are useful and provide a baseline for future work on this task. Key wordsChinese discourse semantic analysis; explicit discourse relation recognition; implicit discourse relation recognition
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