31.1996, Calls: Comp Ling, Disc Analysis/Online

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Subject: 31.1996, Calls: Comp Ling, Disc Analysis/Online

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 13:03:14
From: Annie Louis [annieplouis at gmail.com]
Subject: 1st Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2020

 
Full Title: 1st Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2020 
Short Title: CODI 2020 

Date: 19-Nov-2020 - 19-Nov-2020
Location: Online, USA 
Contact Person: Annie Louis
Meeting Email: codi-workshop at googlegroups.com
Web Site: https://codi-workshop.github.io/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis 

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2020 

Meeting Description:

The last five years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP
systems to understand and produce words and sentences. This development has
created a renewed interest in discourse problems as researchers move towards
the processing of long-form text and conversations. There is a surge of
activity in discourse parsing, coherence models, text summarization, corpora
for discourse level reading comprehension, and discourse related/aided
representation learning, to name a few. Our workshop brings together discourse
experts and upcoming researchers to catalyze the speed and knowledge needed to
solve such problems, as well as serve as a forum for the discussion of
suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. 

The previous workshops on discourse in machine translation (DiscoMT), linking
lexical, sentential and discourse semantics (LSDSem), discourse structure in
natural language generation (DSNNLG), discourse parsing and treebanking
(DisRPT) and coreference (CORBON/CRAC), have shown that there is considerable
interest and success in bringing together the community working on specific
problems. 

The Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse brings together
researchers interested in all aspects of discourse and its computational
modeling and provides a general forum where work ranging from corpus
development/analysis to computational models, and evaluation is discussed, and
desiderata can be identified for future progress. 


Call for Papers: 
                            
We welcome symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and
analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We
appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications,
including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a
forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of
discourse. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 
 - discourse structure 
 - discourse connectives 
 - discourse relations 
 - annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena 
 - corpora annotated with discourse phenomena 
 - discourse parsing 
 - cross-lingual discourse processing 
 - cross-domain discourse processing 
 - anaphora and coreference resolution 
 - event coreference 
 - argument mining 
 - coherence modeling 
 - discourse and semantics 
 - discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. 
 - evaluation methodology for discourse processing 

Submissions: 
Please find details at https://codi-workshop.github.io/

Important Dates: 
12 June, 2020: First Call for Papers
10 July, 2020: Second Call for Papers
15 July, 2020: Anonymity period starts
15 Aug, 2020: Papers Due (long, short, demo, extended abstracts)
29 Sept, 2020: Notification of Acceptance 
10 Oct, 2020: Camera-ready papers due
 Nov 19, 2020: Workshop Date

All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (''anywhere on Earth'').

Organizers: 
Chloe Braud, CNRS-IRIT
Christian Hardmeier, Uppsala University
Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin
Annie Louis, Google Research, London
Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies




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