  We argue that semantic meanings of a sentence or clause can not be
interpreted independently from the rest of a paragraph, or independently from
all discourse relations and the overall paragraph-level discourse structure.
With the goal of improving implicit discourse relation classification, we
introduce a paragraph-level neural networks that model inter-dependencies
between discourse units as well as discourse relation continuity and patterns,
and predict a sequence of discourse relations in a paragraph. Experimental
results show that our model outperforms the previous state-of-the-art systems
on the benchmark corpus of PDTB.

Computation and Language