We combine two recently released corpora: discourse relations from the Penn Discourse Treebank and coreference annotations from the OntoNotes corpus, to assess the prevalence and interplay between factors that create local coherence in newspaper text.
in our study we examine how three hypotheses formulated in prior work play out in the Wall Street Journal texts in our corpus: Hypothesis 1 Adjacent sentences that do not share entities are related by non-elaboration discourse relations [Poesio et al.