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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, USA
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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 "document structure"), or structures specific to particular genres (news report, scientific papers, errata, etc.)
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