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- | === Brief description of the workshop === | + | __===Brief description of the workshop===__ |
The aim of the workshop is twofold: | The aim of the workshop is twofold: | ||
- | (a) to bring together and to spread an up-to-date information on advanced computationally oriented | + | - **to bring together** and to spread an up-to-date information on advanced computationally oriented studies in discourse analysis, and |
- | studies in discourse analysis, and | + | - **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. |
- | (b) to provoke a discussion on hot issues in the domain of the study in discourse, especially with | + | To fulfil |
- | respect to modern methodology and to computationally and corpus | + | |
- | oriented research and its possible applications. Thus, the workshop | + | |
- | 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 programme of the workshop will contain === |
- | provide a forum free of the conventional shape of unrelated | + | |
- | presentations on the topic. | + | |
- | The programme of the workshop | + | - **brief positional papers** given by prominent researchers who have had significant contributions to the field (see the list of invited speakers below), and |
+ | - **contributions** by workshop | ||
- | (i) brief positional papers | + | We believe that this procedure will help to concentrate on an intensive interaction and discussion of all the participants |
- | given by prominent researchers who have had significant contributions | + | |
- | the field (see the list of invited speakers below), and | + | |
- | (ii) contributions | + | The abstracts of the statements |
- | 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 | + | ===The invitation to present a position paper (with a provisional topics as given below) has already been accepted by=== |
- | interaction | + | **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 | ||
+ | // | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===Confirmation | ||
+ | **Prof. Aravind Joshi,** Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia, | ||
+ | **Massimo Poesio,** University | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Among the issues proposed to be discussed there are === | ||
+ | * Intrasentential and intersentential relations: commonalities and differences | ||
+ | * Explicit and implicit relations of coherence of discourse; means of implicit relations. | ||
+ | * What corpora annnotation of discourse relations and related phenomena can reveal? | ||
+ | * Annotation efforts undertaken in languages other than English, and their contribution to advances in Language Technologies and to a greater cross-linguistic understanding of coherence relations, their complexity and their lexicalization. | ||
+ | * Advances in empirically-driven discourse-level methods of language processing (discourse parsing, sense detection) and their impact on theoretical understanding of discourse structure | ||
+ | * Discourse and dialogue, commonalities and differences (e.g. dialogue act standardisation) | ||
+ | * Text segmentation and modelling of coherence in texts, twits, dialogues, monologues etc. | ||
+ | * Structures other than coherence relations that discourse manifests (e.g. layout or " | ||
- | The abstracts of the statements of the invited speakers will be published | ||
- | on this web page before August 31st, 2012. |