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The Source Report of RST As noted, the definitive publication on RST is an article in the journal Text vol. 8, nr. 3. It was based on a research report from USC Information Sciences Institute, ISI/RS-87-190. (This document is no longer available from USC.)
The entire set of pages, with this page, can also be downloaded as a zip file. Click here. It is about 7 meg.
Note also that although the full report was expected to appear in an edited book, The Structure of Discourse , Livia Polanyi, ed., that book was never published. It should not be referenced.