Our experiments on the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB) (Prasad et al., 2008) show that these new representations deliver improvements over systems using these generic representations and yield state-of-the-art results, and this without the use of other hand-crafted features, thus also alleviating the need for external linguistic resources (like lexical databases).
our approach could be easily extended to resource-poor languages as long as connectives can be reliably identified on raw texts.