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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 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 +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.
-presentations on the topic.+
  
-=== The programme of the workshop will contain ===+===Important Dates=== 
 +Please do not forget to **submit the final non-anonymous version of the paper by November 15th!**
  
-** (ibrief positional papers** +    September 30th, 2012 (11:59pm Cetral European time, GMT+2): Paper submission deadline 
-given by prominent researchers who have had significant contributions to the field (see the list of invited speakers below)and+    October 31st, 2012: Paper accept/reject notification 
 +    November 15th2012: Camera ready paper due
  
-** (iicontributions** +=== Call for papers === 
-by workshop participants submitted and accepted (on the basis of a review procedure).+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]]).
  
-We believe that this procedure will help to concentrate on an intensive interaction and discussion of all the participants of the workshop.+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 abstracts of the statements of the invited speakers will be published on this web page before August 31st, 2012.+=== The programme of the workshop will contain ===
  
-The invitation to present a position paper (with a privisional topics as given below) has already been accepted by:+  - **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)
  
 +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// ([[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}}) 
 +**Massimo Poesio,** University of Essex, Great Britain 
 +//Empirical methods in the study of anaphora: lessons learned, remaining problems// ([[Poesio_abstract|abstract]])
  
-**ProfKristiina Jokinen,** Helsinki University, Finland +=== Programme === 
-(New  Information in Wikitalk - story telling for information presentation+10.00 – 10.20: //WelcomeIntroduction// (Eva Hajičová)  
- +10.20 – 11.00: Aravind Joshi: //Remarks on some not so closed issues concerning discourse connectives// (invited position paper) 
-**Nianwen (BertXue,** Assistant Professor Brandeis University. USA +11.00 – 11.25: Amba Kulkarni and Monali Das: //Discourse Analysis of Sanskrit texts// 
-(Explicit and implicit discourse relations from a cross-lingual perspective – from experience in working on Chinese discourse annotation) +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) 
-Confirmation of a presentation is still to be received by+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// 
-**ProfAravind Joshi,** Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia, USA +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 of EssexGreat Britain+15.10 – 15.35: Pavlína Jínová, Jiří Mírovský and Lucie Poláková: //Semi-Automatic Annotation of Intra-Sentential Discourse Relations in PDT// 
 +15.35 – 16.00Andreas 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 learnedremaining 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 ===
- +  Intra-sentential and inter-sentential relations: commonalities and differences
-  Intrasentential and intersentential 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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