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-===== DISCOURSE Workshop at COLING 2012 =====+===== ADACA Discourse 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:** //hajicova// at //ufal.mff.cuni.cz// **e-mail:** //hajicova// at //ufal.mff.cuni.cz//
 +**Technical co-organizers:** Jiří Mírovský and Lucie Poláková
 +**Workshop date:** December 15th, 2012 (Saturday)
  
 === Brief description of the workshop === === Brief description of the workshop ===
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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. 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.
 +
 +===Important Dates===
 +Please do not forget to **submit the final non-anonymous version of the paper by November 15th!**
 +
 +    September 30th, 2012 (11:59pm Cetral European time, GMT+2): Paper submission deadline
 +    October 31st, 2012: Paper accept/reject notification
 +    November 15th, 2012: Camera ready paper due
 +
 +=== Call for papers ===
 +Both long (up to 14 A5 pages + references) and short papers (up to 8 A5 pages + references) are possible, please follow the instructions for the formats of submissions for papers for the main conference (see [[http://www.coling2012-iitb.org/call_for_papers.php|COLING website]]).
 +
 +Submission and reviewing will be online, managed by the START system. The only accepted format of submitted papers is PDF. Submissions must be uploaded on the START system before the submission deadline, which is September 30th, 2012 (11:59pm Central European time, GTM+2). To submit a paper, go to [[https://www.softconf.com/coling2012/ADACA01/|the paper submission page]]. Do not forget to anonymize your submissions, the reviewing process will be double-blind.
  
 === The programme of the workshop will contain === === The programme of the workshop will contain ===
  
-  - **brief positional papers** given by prominent researchers who have had significant contributions to the field (see the list of invited speakers below), and+  - **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)   - **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.
  
-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 has already been accepted by=== 
- +**Prof. Kristiina Jokinen,** University of Helsinki, Finland, University of Tartu, Estonia 
-===The invitation to present a position paper (with a provisional topics as given below) has already been accepted by===+//New  Information in Wikitalk - story telling for information presentation// ([[Jokinen_abstract|abstract]], {{:coling_2012_adaca_Jokinen.pdf|presentation}}) 
 +**Prof. Aravind Joshi,** University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA 
 +//Remarks on some not so closed issues concerning discourse connectives// ([[Joshi_abstract|abstract]], {{:coling_2012_adaca_Joshi.pdf|presentation}})
 **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]], {{:coling_2012_adaca_pdtb_mckeown.pdf|presentation}})
-**Prof. Kristiina Jokinen,** Helsinki University, Finland +
-//New  Information in Wikitalk - story telling for information presentation// +
-**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// +
- +
-===Confirmation of a presentation is still to be received by=== +
-**Prof. Aravind Joshi,** Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia, USA+
 **Massimo Poesio,** University of Essex, Great Britain **Massimo Poesio,** University of Essex, Great Britain
 +//Empirical methods in the study of anaphora: lessons learned, remaining problems// ([[Poesio_abstract|abstract]])
 +
 +=== Programme ===
 +10.00 – 10.20: //Welcome, Introduction// (Eva Hajičová) 
 +10.20 – 11.00: Aravind Joshi: //Remarks on some not so closed issues concerning discourse connectives// (invited position paper)
 +11.00 – 11.25: Amba Kulkarni and Monali Das: //Discourse Analysis of Sanskrit texts//
 +11.25 – 12.00: TEA BREAK 
 +12.00 – 12.40: Kathleen McKeown: //Penn Discourse Treebank Relations and their Potential for Language Generation// (invited position paper)
 +12.40 – 13.05: Nik Adilah Hanin Binti Zahri, Fumiyo Fukumoto and Suguru Matsuyoshi: //Exploiting Discourse Relations between Sentences for Text Clustering//
 +13.05 – 13.30: Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg: //Measuring the Strength of Linguistic Cues for Discourse Relations//
 +13.30 – 14.30: LUNCH 
 +14.30 – 15.10: Kristiina Jokinen: //New Information in Wikitalk - story telling for information presentation// (invited position paper)
 +15.10 – 15.35: Pavlína Jínová, Jiří Mírovský and Lucie Poláková: //Semi-Automatic Annotation of Intra-Sentential Discourse Relations in PDT//
 +15.35 – 16.00: Andreas Peldszus and David Schlangen: //Incremental Construction of Robust but Deep Semantic Representations for Use in Responsive Dialogue Systems//
 +16.00 – 16.30: TEA BREAK
 +16.30 – 17.10: Massimo Poesio: //Empirical methods in the study of anaphora: lessons learned, remaining problems// (invited position paper)
 +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), the timeslot for the accepted papers is 25 minutes (15 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion). Please prepare your presentations accordingly.
 +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 ===
-  * Intrasentential and intersentential relations: commonalities and differences+  * Intra-sentential and inter-sentential relations: commonalities and differences
   * 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?

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