32.2222, Calls: Comp Ling, Disc Analys, Ling Theories, Pragmatics/Germany

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Subject: 32.2222, Calls: Comp Ling, Disc Analys, Ling Theories, Pragmatics/Germany

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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 13:24:08
From: Kordula De Kuthy [de-kuthy at uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Integrating Perspectives on Discourse Annotation

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

Date: 04-Oct-2021 - 05-Oct-2021
Location: University of Tübingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Kordula De Kuthy
Meeting Email: discann at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de
Web Site: https://discannworkshop.github.io/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2021 

Meeting Description:

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.

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: 

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

We invite papers of 4 pages (plus unlimited references) using the short paper
ACL 2020 style templates available for LaTeX and Word at
https://2021.aclweb.org/downloads/acl-ijcnlp2021-templates.zip or on Overleaf
at
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-acl-ijcnlp-2021-proc
eedings/mhxffkjdwymb

Paper submission deadline: July 31
Submissions should be sent electronically to: discann at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de

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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