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DISCOURSE Workshop at COLING 2012
W1: Advances in discourse analysis and its computational aspects
Workshop general chair: Eva Hajičová, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
e-mail: hajicova at ufal.mff.cuni.cz
Brief description of the workshop
The aim of the workshop is twofold:
(a) to bring together and to spread an up-to-date information on advanced computationally oriented
studies in discourse analysis, and
(b) to provoke a discussion on hot issues in the domain of the study in discourse, especially with
respect to modern methodology and to computationally and corpus
oriented research and its possible applications. Thus, the workshop may
attract a rather broad (and cross-section) audience: those who are just
starting their research in the given area will get enough stuff for
thought how to proceed, and those who are in an advanced stage of their
research will get a stimulating feedback from the floor and the discussion
will make it possible for them to sharpen their ideas and plans.
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.
The programme of the workshop will contain
(i) brief positional papers
given by prominent researchers who have had significant contributions to
the field (see the list of invited speakers below), and
(ii) contributions
by workshop participants submitted and accepted (on the basis of a review
procedure).
We believe that this procedure will help to concentrate on an intensive
interaction and discussion of all the participants of the workshop.
The abstracts of the statements of the invited speakers will be published
on this web page before August 31st, 2012.