With parallel corpora similarly annotated for discourse phenomena, (a) we may be able to avoid some of the differences arising from annotation efforts carried out separately for each language, (b) help discourse-level corpus annotation efforts to improve our understanding of discourse structure, and in turn (c) help to enhance language technology applications.
our aim in developing TED-MDB is to investigate the phenomena surrounding discourse relations on the basis of texts belonging to the same genre by annotating them similarly across languages.