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- | ===== DISCOURSE | + | ===== ADACA Workshop at COLING 2012 ===== |
==== W1: Advances in discourse analysis and its computational aspects ==== | ==== W1: Advances in discourse analysis and its computational aspects ==== | ||
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**Workshop general chair:** Eva Hajičová, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic | **Workshop general chair:** Eva Hajičová, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic | ||
**e-mail:** // | **e-mail:** // | ||
+ | **Workshop date:** December 15, 2012 (Saturday) | ||
=== 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. |
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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | === The programme of the workshop will contain === | ||
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+ | - **brief position papers** given by prominent researchers who have had significant contributions to the field (see the list of invited speakers below), and | ||
+ | - **contributions** by workshop participants submitted and accepted (on the basis of a review procedure) | ||
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+ | We believe that this procedure will help to concentrate on an intensive interaction and discussion of all the participants of the workshop. | ||
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+ | The abstracts of the statements of the invited speakers will be published on this web page before August 31st, 2012. | ||
- | (b) to provoke | + | ===The invitation |
- | respect to modern methodology | + | **Prof. Katheleen McKeown,** Columbia University, New York, USA |
- | oriented research and its possible applications. Thus, the workshop may | + | //What is needed |
- | attract a rather broad (and cross-section) audience: those who are just | + | **Prof. Kristiina Jokinen,** Helsinki University, Finland |
- | starting their research in the given area will get enough stuff for | + | //New Information in Wikitalk |
- | thought how to proceed, and those who are in an advanced stage of their | + | **Nianwen (Bert) Xue,** Assistant Professor Brandeis University. USA |
- | research will get a stimulating feedback | + | //Explicit and implicit discourse relations from a cross-lingual perspective – from experience in working on Chinese discourse annotation// |
- | will make it possible for them to sharpen their ideas and plans. | + | |
- | To fulfil the workshop aims specified above, the workshop will attempt | + | ===Confirmation of a presentation is still to be received by=== |
- | provide a forum free of the conventional shape of unrelated | + | **Prof. Aravind Joshi,** Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia, |
- | presentations on the topic. | + | **Massimo Poesio,** University of Essex, Great Britain |
- | The programme of the workshop will contain | + | === Among the issues proposed to be discussed there are === |
+ | * Intra-sentential and inter-sentential 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 " | ||
- | (i) brief positional papers | + | ===Important Dates=== |
- | given by prominent researchers who have had significant contributions to | + | |
- | the field (see the list of invited speakers below), and | + | |
- | (ii) contributions | + | 30th September, 2012 (11:59pm Cetral European time, GMT+2): Paper submission deadline |
- | by workshop participants submitted and accepted (on the basis of a review | + | 31st October, 2012: Paper accept/ |
- | procedure). | + | 15th November, 2012: Camera ready paper due |
- | We believe that this procedure will help to concentrate on an intensive | + | === Call for papers === |
- | interaction | + | Both long (up to 14 A5 pages + references) |
- | The abstracts of the statements of the invited speakers will be published | ||
- | on this web page before August 31st, 2012. |