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- | ===== DISCOURSE | + | ===== ADACA Discourse |
==== 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:** // | ||
+ | **Technical co-organizers: | ||
+ | **Workshop date:** December 15th, 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: | ||
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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 | + | To fulfil |
- | To fulfil the workshop aims specified above, the workshop will attempt | + | ===Important Dates=== |
- | presentations on the topic. | + | Please do not forget |
- | === The programme of the workshop will contain === | + | September 30th, 2012 (11:59pm Cetral European time, GMT+2): Paper submission deadline |
+ | October 31st, 2012: Paper accept/ | ||
+ | November 15th, 2012: Camera ready paper due | ||
- | ** (i) brief positional | + | === Call for papers === |
- | given by prominent researchers who have had significant contributions | + | Both long (up to 14 A5 pages + references) and short papers |
- | ** (ii) contributions** | + | Submission |
- | by workshop participants submitted | + | |
- | We believe that this procedure will help to concentrate on an intensive interaction and discussion of all the participants | + | === The programme |
- | The abstracts of the statements of the invited speakers | + | - **brief position papers** given by prominent researchers who have had significant contributions to the field (see the list of invited speakers |
+ | - **contributions** by workshop participants submitted and accepted (on the basis of a review procedure) | ||
- | The invitation | + | We believe that this procedure will help to concentrate on an intensive interaction and discussion of all the participants of the workshop. |
+ | ===The invitation to present a position paper has already been accepted by=== | ||
+ | **Prof. Kristiina Jokinen,** University of Helsinki, Finland, University of Tartu, Estonia | ||
+ | //New Information in Wikitalk - story telling for information presentation// | ||
+ | **Prof. Aravind Joshi,** University of Pennsylvania, | ||
+ | //Remarks on some not so closed issues concerning discourse connectives// | ||
**Prof. Katheleen McKeown,** Columbia University, New York, USA | **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.) | + | //What is needed and what can help for people who want to use discourse relations in tasks such as NL generation or text summarization.// ([[McKeown_abstract|abstract]], |
+ | **Massimo Poesio,** University of Essex, Great Britain | ||
+ | //Empirical methods in the study of anaphora: lessons learned, remaining problems// ([[Poesio_abstract|abstract]]) | ||
- | **Prof. Kristiina Jokinen,** Helsinki University, Finland | + | === Programme === |
- | (New Information in Wikitalk - story telling for information presentation) | + | 10.00 – 10.20: //Welcome, Introduction// |
- | + | 10.20 – 11.00: Aravind Joshi: //Remarks on some not so closed issues concerning discourse connectives// | |
- | **Nianwen | + | 11.00 – 11.25: Amba Kulkarni and Monali Das: //Discourse Analysis of Sanskrit texts// |
- | (Explicit | + | 11.25 – 12.00: TEA BREAK |
- | + | 12.00 – 12.40: Kathleen McKeown: //Penn Discourse Treebank Relations and their Potential for Language Generation// | |
- | Confirmation of a presentation is still to be received by: | + | 12.40 – 13.05: Nik Adilah Hanin Binti Zahri, Fumiyo Fukumoto and Suguru Matsuyoshi: // |
- | + | 13.05 – 13.30: Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg: //Measuring the Strength of Linguistic Cues for Discourse Relations// | |
- | **Prof. Aravind Joshi,** Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia, | + | 13.30 – 14.30: LUNCH |
- | + | 14.30 – 15.10: Kristiina Jokinen: //New Information in Wikitalk - story telling for information presentation// (invited position paper) | |
- | **Massimo Poesio,** University | + | 15.10 – 15.35: Pavlína Jínová, Jiří Mírovský |
+ | 15.35 – 16.00: Andreas Peldszus and David Schlangen: // | ||
+ | 16.00 – 16.30: TEA BREAK | ||
+ | 16.30 – 17.10: | ||
+ | 17.10 – 18.00: General discussion: //Where we are and where to go// | ||
+ | === Instructions for Presenters === | ||
+ | The timeslot for the position papers is 40 minutes (30 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion), | ||
+ | As we are not sure about the software available at the equipment provided by the local organizers, please prepare your presentations in PDF format or bring your own laptop. | ||
=== Among the issues proposed to be discussed there are === | === Among the issues proposed to be discussed there are === | ||
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* Explicit and implicit relations of coherence of discourse; means of implicit relations. | * Explicit and implicit relations of coherence of discourse; means of implicit relations. | ||
* What corpora annnotation of discourse relations and related phenomena can reveal? | * What corpora annnotation of discourse relations and related phenomena can reveal? |