Workshop general chair: Eva Hajičová, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
e-mail: hajicova at ufal.mff.cuni.cz
Technical co-organizers: Jiří Mírovský and Lucie Poláková
Workshop date: December 15th, 2012 (Saturday)
The aim of the workshop is twofold:
To fulfil the workshop aims specified above, the workshop will attempt to provide a forum free of the conventional shape of unrelated presentations on the topic.
Please do not forget to submit the final non-anonymous version of the paper by November 15th!
September 30th, 2012 (11:59pm Cetral European time, GMT+2): Paper submission deadline October 31st, 2012: Paper accept/reject notification November 15th, 2012: Camera ready paper due
Both long (up to 14 A5 pages + references) and short papers (up to 8 A5 pages + references) are possible, please follow the instructions for the formats of submissions for papers for the main conference (see COLING website).
Submission and reviewing will be online, managed by the START system. The only accepted format of submitted papers is PDF. Submissions must be uploaded on the START system before the submission deadline, which is September 30th, 2012 (11:59pm Central European time, GTM+2). To submit a paper, go to the paper submission page. Do not forget to anonymize your submissions, the reviewing process will be double-blind.
We believe that this procedure will help to concentrate on an intensive interaction and discussion of all the participants of the workshop.
Prof. Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland, University of Tartu, Estonia
New Information in Wikitalk - story telling for information presentation (abstract, presentation)
Prof. Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Remarks on some not so closed issues concerning discourse connectives (abstract, presentation)
Prof. Katheleen McKeown, Columbia University, New York, USA
What is needed and what can help for people who want to use discourse relations in tasks such as NL generation or text summarization. (abstract, presentation)
Massimo Poesio, University of Essex, Great Britain
Empirical methods in the study of anaphora: lessons learned, remaining problems (abstract)
10.00 – 10.20: Welcome, Introduction (Eva Hajičová)
10.20 – 11.00: Aravind Joshi: Remarks on some not so closed issues concerning discourse connectives (invited position paper)
11.00 – 11.25: Amba Kulkarni and Monali Das: Discourse Analysis of Sanskrit texts
11.25 – 12.00: TEA BREAK
12.00 – 12.40: Kathleen McKeown: Penn Discourse Treebank Relations and their Potential for Language Generation (invited position paper)
12.40 – 13.05: Nik Adilah Hanin Binti Zahri, Fumiyo Fukumoto and Suguru Matsuyoshi: Exploiting Discourse Relations between Sentences for Text Clustering
13.05 – 13.30: Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg: Measuring the Strength of Linguistic Cues for Discourse Relations
13.30 – 14.30: LUNCH
14.30 – 15.10: Kristiina Jokinen: New Information in Wikitalk - story telling for information presentation (invited position paper)
15.10 – 15.35: Pavlína Jínová, Jiří Mírovský and Lucie Poláková: Semi-Automatic Annotation of Intra-Sentential Discourse Relations in PDT
15.35 – 16.00: Andreas Peldszus and David Schlangen: Incremental Construction of Robust but Deep Semantic Representations for Use in Responsive Dialogue Systems
16.00 – 16.30: TEA BREAK
16.30 – 17.10: Massimo Poesio: Empirical methods in the study of anaphora: lessons learned, remaining problems (invited position paper)
17.10 – 18.00: General discussion: Where we are and where to go
The timeslot for the position papers is 40 minutes (30 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion), the timeslot for the accepted papers is 25 minutes (15 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion). Please prepare your presentations accordingly.
As we are not sure about the software available at the equipment provided by the local organizers, please prepare your presentations in PDF format or bring your own laptop.