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The abstracts of the statements of the invited speakers will be published on this web page before August 31st, 2012. | The abstracts of the statements of the invited speakers will be published on this web page before August 31st, 2012. | ||
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+ | The invitation to present a position paper (with a privisional topics as given below) has already been accepted by: | ||
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+ | **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.) | ||
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+ | **Prof. Kristiina Jokinen,** Helsinki University, Finland | ||
+ | (New Information in Wikitalk - story telling for information presentation) | ||
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+ | **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) | ||
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+ | Confirmation of a presentation is still to be received by: | ||
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+ | **Prof. Aravind Joshi,** Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia, | ||
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+ | **Massimo Poesio,** University of Essex, Great Britain | ||
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+ | === Among the issues proposed to be discussed there are === | ||
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+ | * 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 " | ||
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