This tutorial aims to provide attendees with a clear notion of how discourse structure is relevant for language technology (LT), what is needed for exploiting discourse structure, what methods and resources are available to support its use, and what more could be done in the future. (a) Discourse chunking and parsing (b) Recognizing arguments and sense of discourse connectives (c) Recognizing and generating entitybased discourse structure (d) Dialogue parsing 3. PART III – Applications and Resources (a) Applications to Language Technology (b) Discourse structure resources (monolingual and multilingual) 4. PART IV – Future Developments