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style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Manfred Stede, Universitaet Potsdam<BR>Michael Grabski,
Technische Universitaet Berlin<BR>Luuk Lagerwerf, Vrije Universiteit
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT face="Courier, Courier New"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><FONT size=4><STRONG>Multidisciplinary Approaches to
Discourse 2005 (MAD'05)</STRONG></FONT> is the sixth in a series of small-scale,
high-quality workshops held bi-annually since 1995.<BR>The theme of the 2005 WS
is 'salience in discourse'.<BR><BR><BR>Workshop Theme: <FONT
size=4><STRONG>Salience in Discourse<BR></STRONG></FONT><BR><BR>Understanding
language involves mapping a linear sequence of information<BR>units (in the case
of texts: characters or words) to a structured<BR>representation. Various
proposals for such structures are under discussion,<BR>but many of them share an
underlying assumption: Structure arises from some<BR>elements of the text being
more prominent than others. The term salience is<BR>often used for this
phenomenon, but it comes in many different flavours.<BR>The workshop aims to
compare these flavours, to look for commonalities, but<BR>also to sharpen
distinctions where appropriate. We thus invite<BR>contributions from linguistic,
psychological, computational perspectives on<BR>salience in discourse, including
but not limited to notions such as the<BR>following:<BR><BR><BR>- Information
structure is well known for a wide varitey of competing<BR>conceptions, but they
all relate to salience in one way or another:<BR>focus/background, topic/focus,
theme/rheme etc.<BR>- Anaphora resolution (and, in the opposite direction,
production of<BR>referring expressions) can be modelled using salience, as it
has been done<BR>for instance in conceptions of referent accessibility (e.g.,
Prince 1981).<BR>- Choices in sentence structure between coordination,
subordination, or<BR>nominalization can be claimed to have ramifications for
discourse<BR>processing, leading to conceptions of foreground/background
structures on<BR>the text level (e.g., Talmy 2000).<BR>- Similarly, most
theories of discourse structure involve salience, e.g..<BR>the notion of
nuclearity in 'Rhetorical structure theory' (RST,<BR>Mann/Thompson 1988), or the
distinction between coordinating and<BR>subordinating relations in 'Segmented
Discourse Representation Theory'<BR>(SDRT, Asher/Lascarides 2003).<BR>- The
semantics of definite descriptions and pronouns have been analyzed in<BR>terms
of salience, for instance by Lewis (1979).<BR>- Other tasks of language
processing, such as word-sense disambiguation or<BR>metaphor processing (e.g.,
Giora and Fein 2004), are sometimes modelled<BR>with salience-inspired
approaches.<BR><BR><BR>Attendance:<BR>Following the tradition of the earlier
workshops, attendance will be<BR>limited to 30 people. Speakers of accepted
papers are automatically granted<BR>a seat; the remaining ones are assigned on
first-come-first-serve basis.<BR><BR><BR>Invited speakers:<BR>In addition to the
regular paper sessions, the workshop features the<BR>following invited
talks:<BR>- Kristiina Jokinen (Univ. of Helsinki) on salience in language and
other<BR>modalities in dialog<BR>- Thomas Noll (TU Berlin) on salience in
language and music<BR>- Jon Oberlander (Univ. of Edinburgh) on salience in
language and reasoning<BR>- Michael Tanenhaus (Univ. of Rochester) on salience
in language and vision<BR><BR><BR>Submission:<BR>Electronic submissions (PDF
format) are strongly preferred. Papers should<BR>not be longer than eight pages
(including figures and references), using<BR>11pt font. For the final versions
of accepted papers, precise formatting<BR>instructions (for Word and LateX) will
be issued.<BR><BR><BR>Send your submission until May 20, 2005 per email to
mad05@ling.uni-potsdam.de<BR><BR><BR>Program Committee:<BR>Jennifer Arnold
(Univ. of Rochester, USA)<BR>Salvatore Attardo (Youngstown State University,
USA)<BR>Rachel Giora (Tel Aviv University, Israel)<BR>Michael Grabski (TU
Berlin, Germany)<BR>Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (Univ. des Saarlandes,
Germany)<BR>Luuk Lagerwerf (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL)<BR>Massimo Poesio
(University of Essex, UK)<BR>Manfred Stede (Univ. Potsdam, Germany)<BR>Alice ter
Meulen (Center for Language and Cognition, Groningen,
NL)<BR><BR><BR>Schedule:<BR>Submission deadline: May 20, 2005<BR>Notification of
acceptance: July 18, 2005<BR>Final papers due: August 19, 2005<BR>Workshop: Oct
5-8, 2005<BR><BR><BR>Organizers:<BR>Manfred Stede, Universitaet
Potsdam<BR>Michael Grabski, Technische Universitaet Berlin<BR>Luuk Lagerwerf,
Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam<BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV></SPAN></FONT></FONT>
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