31.477, Calls: Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Netherlands

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Subject: 31.477, Calls: Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Netherlands

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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 10:23:06
From: Kordula De Kuthy [de-kuthy at uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: WS on Integrating Perspectives on Discourse Annotation

 
Full Title: WS on Integrating Perspectives on Discourse Annotation 
Short Title: DiscAnn 

Date: 03-Aug-2020 - 07-Aug-2020
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Kordula De Kuthy
Meeting Email: de-kuthy at uni-tuebingen.de
Web Site: https://discannworkshop.github.io/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2020 

Meeting Description:

The ESSLLI Workshop : Integrating Perspectives on Discourse Annotation will be
held August 3-7, 2020 in Utrecht. 
                 
Reflecting the substantial interest in analyzing language beyond the sentence
level in linguistics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and
applied domains, this workshop aims at bringing together researchers from the
various subdisciplines that are working on aspects of discourse annotation.
Advances in formal pragmatics are extending the empirical reach of linguistic
analyses. Computational linguistic research on dialogue and discourse
structure has produced multi-layer corpus annotation efforts such as NXT
Switchboard or the Penn Discourse Treebank.  Applications include dialogue
systems and argumentation mining.

This  workshop  is  designed  as  a  joint  forum  for  the  range  of
perspectives on discourse feeding and complementing each other. This includes
research on the analysis and annotation of: 
- discourse relations, be it related to frameworks such as RST, SDRT, or
applications such as argumentation mining, and
- information structural concepts (Topic/Focus, Givenness, Questions under
Discussion).

Equally of interest are methodological issues related to such annotation, such
as reflections on:
- manual  annotation, e.g., evaluating annotations schemes and the reliability
of the annotation,
- crowdsourcing annotation, potentially supporting the  annotation of some
aspects for larger data sets, and
- the automatic labelling using computational approaches.

Relatedly, we are interested in a discussion of the sources of evidence that
different annotation schemes and annotation methods rely on.  Where are
annotations based on linguistic forms (bottom-up observable in the language 
data) and where are they grounded in discourse properties (top-down, from
context or task)?

The workshop is designed to foster the interaction and cooperation of
researchers working  in different  frameworks and using different annotations
methods and document the current state of-the-art in the field of discourse
annotation.


Call for Papers: 

We  invite papers of 4 pages (plus  unlimited references)  using the short
paper ACL 2020 style templates available for LaTeX and Word at
http://acl2020.org/downloads/acl2020-templates.zip or on Overleaf at
https://overleaf.com/latex/templates/acl-2020-proceedings-template/zsrkcwjptpc
d

Based on the workshop theme, topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:

- the analysis and annotation of discourse relations, be it related to
frameworks such as RST, SDRT, or applications such as argumentation mining

- the  analysis and annotation of information structural concepts
(Topic/Focus, Givenness, Questions under Discussion)

- methodological issues, such as reflections on i) manual annotation, e.g., 
evaluating annotations schemes and the reliability of  the annotation, ii)
crowdsourcing annotation, potentially supporting the annotation of some
aspects  for  larger data  sets,  and iii)  the automatic labelling using
computational approaches.

- project descriptions and progress reports for research focused on or
integrating discourse annotation

- tools that support  discourse  annotation concepts and goals, including
conceptual explorations of wish lists or tool specifications

- research speaking to the gap between qualitative linguistic analysis and
empirically broad analysis of ecologically valid data

While the presentation language at the workshop is English,  we encourage
research on a broad range of languages.

Submission are submitted electronically using EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=discann2020

Paper submission deadline: March 1

Reviewing will be double blind, so obvious self-references should be avoided
and acknowledgements should not be included. We will electronically publish
proceedings with the accepted, final versions of the papers (in a form with a
permanent URN making it citable).

Organizers/Chairs:
Kordula De Kuthy (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Detmar Meurers (University of Tübingen, Germany)

For any questions, contact us at: discann at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de




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