| Challenge: | Existing annotation efforts for multiple languages have focused on discourse connectives, but we have limited it to the class of connectives marking contrast and the additional relations such connectives might convey. |
| Approach: | They enrich a lexicon of italian COnnectives with real corpus data for connectives marking contrast relations in text. |
| Outcome: | The proposed resource is a valuable tool for linguistic analyses of discourse relations and the training of a classifier for NLP applications. |
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