Glossary
Discourse Structure
The organization and coherence of language across multiple sentences or turns — how ideas connect, flow, and build on each other in extended text or conversation.
Discourse structure refers to how language hangs together above the sentence level — the way a paragraph builds an argument, how a conversation maintains coherence across multiple turns, or how a long response organizes information in a way that readers can follow. Models can fail at the discourse level even when individual sentences are perfectly formed: they might drift from the topic mid-response, repeat themselves, introduce contradictions, or fail to signal the relationship between ideas clearly. For behavior architects, attending to discourse structure is part of evaluating response quality holistically — a response that reads as disjointed or poorly organized fails the user even if its content is accurate, because the organizational failure makes that content harder to trust and use.