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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.

The invitation to present a position paper (with a privisional topics as given below) has already been accepted by:

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.)

Prof. Kristiina Jokinen, Helsinki University, Finland
(New Information in Wikitalk - story telling for information presentation)

Nianwen (Bert) Xue, Assistant Professor Brandeis University. USA
(Explicit and implicit discourse relations from a cross-lingual perspective – from experience in working on Chinese discourse annotation)

Confirmation of a presentation is still to be received by:

Prof. Aravind Joshi, Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia, USA

Massimo Poesio, University of Essex, Great Britain

Among the issues proposed to be discussed there are


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