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The aim of the workshop is twofold: | The aim of the workshop is twofold: | ||
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+ | - **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 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. |
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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. | + | |
=== The programme of the workshop will contain === | === The programme of the workshop will contain === | ||
- | ** (i) brief positional papers** | + | - **brief positional papers** given by prominent researchers who have had significant contributions to the field (see the list of invited speakers below), and |
- | given by prominent researchers who have had significant contributions to the field (see the list of invited speakers below), and | + | |
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- | ** (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. | 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. | 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 | + | ===The invitation to present a position paper (with a provisional |
**Prof. Katheleen McKeown,** Columbia University, New York, USA | **Prof. Katheleen McKeown,** Columbia University, New York, USA | ||
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(Explicit and implicit discourse relations from a cross-lingual perspective – from experience in working on Chinese discourse annotation) | (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: | + | ===Confirmation of a presentation is still to be received by=== |
**Prof. Aravind Joshi,** Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia, | **Prof. Aravind Joshi,** Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia, |