Challenge: Existing methods for predicting implicit discourse relations ignore wider paragraph contexts beyond the two discourse units examined for a discourse relation prediction.
Approach: They propose a paragraph-level neural network that models inter-dependencies between discourse units and discourse relation continuity and patterns and predicts a sequence of discourse relations in a sentence.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art systems on the benchmark corpus of PDTB.

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Challenge: Prior research in discourse relation recognition has treated these instances as separate examples during training, with a gold-standard prediction matching one of the labels considered correct at test time.
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Challenge: Prior work claimed that explicit classifiers perform poorly in implicit scenarios . a label shift occurs after connectives are removed, but no empirical evidence supports this claim .
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