CALL FOR PAPERS - WORKSHOP "RST AND DISCOURSE STUDIES"

[Juliano Desiderato Antonio]

Dear Colleagues,

            Please, announce this CFP in your communities. Apologies
for eventual multiple posts.

            Thank you!

Juliano D. Antonio and Mikel Iruskieta

*FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS*

4th MEETING “RST AND DISCOURSE STUDIES”
http://encontrorst2013.wix.com/encontro-rst-2013
Fortaleza/Ceará (Brazil), October 23, 2013

“RST and discourse studies” workshop gathers researchers, professors  
and students of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics or Information  
Science who work with Rhetorical Structure Theory (MANN and THOMPSON,  
1988) or similar theories and models. The goal is to enable the  
showing of researches carried out in different institutions and  
research groups in different countries.
The 4th edition of the workshop will be held on the October 23rd,  
2013, as a satellite meeting of the 9th Brazilian Symposium in  
Information and Human Language Technology (STIL –  
http://www2.unifor.br/bracis2013/call-for-papers-stil), in Fortaleza,  
Brazil.
The 1st edition of the workshop was held at 16thIntercâmbio de  
Pesquisas em Linguística Aplicada (InPLA), in 2007, at PUC-SP. The  
second edition, in 2009, was named “Brazilian RST Meeting” within STIL  
in São Carlos (http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/stil09/). The 3rd workshop “RST  
and Discourse Studies” was also held within STIL (2011) in Cuiabá  
(http://corpus.iingen.unam.mx/RST_2011/).

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza (University of the Basque Country)
Horacio Saggion (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Iria da Cunha (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Juan-Manuel Torres (Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon)
Juliano Desiderato Antonio (Universidade Estadual de Maringá)
Lucia Rino (Universidade Federal de São Carlos)
Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University)
Maria Beatriz Nascimento Decat (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Maria Eduarda Giering (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos)
Mikel Iruskieta (University of the Basque Country)
Thiago Pardo (Universidade de São Paulo)
ORGANIZATION
Mikel Iruskieta (University of the Basque Country)
Juliano Desiderato Antonio (Universidade Estadual de Maringá)

PAPER SUBMISSION AND EVALUATION
Participants may submit full papers or extended abstracts to  
encontro.rst.2013 at gmail.com until May 3rd, 2013. The full paper should  
be no more than eight pages (including tables and figures) length,  
with two additional pages for references. The extended abstract should  
be no more than four pages length and one additional page for  
references.
Each paper [without the name(s) of the author(s)] will be sent to two  
members of the scientific committee, who will point out if the paper  
should be accepted or not. In case the paper is accepted, members of  
the committee will suggest whether the paper should be presented as a  
talk or as a poster. In case the paper is granted a positive and a  
negative evaluation, a third evaluation will be necessary. Acceptance  
notifications will be published by May 31th, 2013.
Final camera-ready papers or extended abstracts must be sent by June  
23rd, 2013 to be published in the online conference proceedings (under  
ISBN).
The model for the full paper or for the extended abstract is available  
at  
http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=195&task=view.download&catid=32&cid=38. Papers and extended abstracts which are not according to the model will not be  
published.
Authors of the accepted papers must register for STIL until the  
deadline for extended abstract or full paper submission. Otherwise  
their papers will not be published in the proceedings.

REGISTRATION
Participants must register for STIL at  
http://www2.unifor.br/bracis2013/call-for-papers-stil.