  Text corpora annotated with language-related properties are an important
resource for the development of Language Technology. The current work
contributes a new resource for Chinese Language Technology and for
Chinese-English translation, in the form of a set of TED talks (some originally
given in English, some in Chinese) that have been annotated with discourse
relations in the style of the Penn Discourse TreeBank, adapted to properties of
Chinese text that are not present in English. The resource is currently unique
in annotating discourse-level properties of planned spoken monologues rather
than of written text. An inter-annotator agreement study demonstrates that the
annotation scheme is able to achieve highly reliable results.
