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Despite the remarkable progress achieved by Large Language Models, they still struggle with discourse-level anaphora resolution, particularly in Chinese. One major challenge is zero anaphora, a prevalent linguistic phenomenon in which referential elements are omitted, increasing complexity and ambiguity for computational models. To address this issue, we introduce CDAMR (Chinese Discourse Abstract Meaning Representation), a novel annotated corpus that systematically labels zero pronouns across diverse syntactic positions along with their discourse-level coreference chains. In addition, we present a hierarchical discourse-semantic enhanced model that separately encodes local discourse semantics and global discourse semantics, and models their interactions via structured multi-attention mechanisms. Experiments on both CDAMR and OntoNotes demonstrate the approach\u2019s cross-corpus generalizability and effectiveness, achieving F1 scores of 59.86% and 60.54%, respectively. Ablation studies further confirm that discourse-level semantics significantly enhance zero pronoun resolution. These findings highlight the value of cognitively inspired discourse modeling and the importance of comprehensive discourse annotations for languages with limited explicit syntactic cues such as Chinese.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/bdcc9090234","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,9]],"date-time":"2025-09-09T08:40:15Z","timestamp":1757407215000},"page":"234","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Hierarchical Discourse-Semantic Modeling for Zero Pronoun Resolution in Chinese"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Tingxin","family":"Wei","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"International College for Chinese Studies, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China"}]},{"given":"Jiabin","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaoling","family":"Ye","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China"},{"name":"Adolescent Education and Intelligence Support Lab of Nanjing Normal University, Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Sciences at Universities in Jiangsu Province, Nanjing 210097, China"}]},{"given":"Weiguang","family":"Qu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer and Electronic Information\/School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China"},{"name":"Zhongbei College, Nanjing Normal University, Danyang 212334, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"11324","article-title":"PALM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways","volume":"24","author":"Chowdhery","year":"2023","journal-title":"J. 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