[Rstlist] A summary of the RST workshop 2017
Mikel Iruskieta
mikel.iruskieta at ehu.eus
Fri Sep 8 21:21:53 EDT 2017
Dear all,
We send you a summary of the RST Workshop 2017 that might be of your
interest.
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4th September - Room A3 - Schedule
Venue: School of Engineering (ETSE), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Location: Campus Vida. Lope Gómez de Marzoa Street.
First of all, we want to thank CITIUS and the local committee of the
INLG2017 for an excellent organization, and for all their help in
preparing 6th edition of the RST Workshop. Proceedings of the workshop
will be available from the ACL Anthology shortly, but the RST Workshop
page has links to all the papers
(https://sites.google.com/site/workshoprst2017/schedule).
9h – Opening. The session was opened by Juliano D. Antonio and people
could follow the workshop with the hashtag #RST2017 by Dave Howcroft.
9h – 1st session.Iria da Cunha chaired a session about fundations of RST
and theorical approaches using RST.
*
Deliberation as Genre: Mapping Argumentation through Relational
Discourse Structure
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMTGFGOVZ6NEE5NHc>
o
Oier Imaz and Mikel Iruskieta
*
The Good, the Bad, and the Disagreement: Complex ground truth in
rhetorical structure analysis
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMZ2JmUGhNamdoVkk>
o
Debopam Das, Manfred Stede and Maite Taboada
*
A Distributional View of Discourse Encapsulation: Multifactorial
Prediction of Coreference Density in RST
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMTm5sRUtoQVRrWTg>
o
Amir Zeldes
*
Rhetorical relations markers in Russian RST Treebank
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMYkYtd21XYjZVSGM>
o
SvetlanaToldova, Dina Pisarevskaya, Margarita Ananyeva, Maria
Kobozeva, Alexander Nasedkin, Sofia Nikiforova, Irina Pavlova
and Alexey Shelepov
11h30 – 2nd session.Juliano D. Antonio chaired the applications session.
*
Applying the Rhetorical Structure Theory in Alzheimer patients'
speech <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMZ20wRmp5Q2FwTTQ>
o
Anayeli Paulino de Jesús and Gerardo Sierra
*
Using lexical level information in discourse structures for Basque
sentiment analysis
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMcEtXR3pUTV94UzA>
o
Jon Alkorta, Koldo Gojenola, Mikel Iruskieta and Maite Taboada
*
Framework for the Analysis of Simplified Texts Taking Discourse into
Account: the Basque Causal Relations as Case Study
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMMVRHdXJDV3hEVTA>
o
Itziar Gonzalez-Dios, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza and Mikel Iruskieta
*
Using Rhetorical Structure Theory for Detection of Fake Online
Reviews <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMWXY1OU9OUEhlVVU>
o
Olu Popoola
14h30 – 3rd session.Debopam Das chaired the cross-linguistic session.
*
“Haters gonna hate”: challenges for sentiment analysis of Facebook
comments in Brazilian Portuguese
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMUzF4ZkFjNnZ2d3M>
o
Juliano D. Antonioand Ana Cristina Leatte Santin
*
Discourse Segmentation for Building a RST Chinese Treebank
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMM0ViT281YXJGX3M>
o
Shuyuan Cao, Nianwen Xue,Iria da Cunha, Mikel Iruskietaand Chuan
Wang
15h30 – Open Meeting.Chair: Iria da Cunha
*
The following RST workshop will be held in 2019 and the organizing
committee will be composed by Amir Zeldes, Debopam Das, Juliano D.
Antonio and Mikel Iruskieta
*
An updated bibliography related to RST is available at website and
the website <http://www.sfu.ca/rst/index.html>and people can use the
RST email list <mailto:LISTSERV at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>and the
website to announce recent advances and work in different languages.
*
Some questions and ideas were discussed about some specific
segmentation and rhetorical relations, applications for annotate
relations and signals, parsers, visualization tools for rhetorical
relation: ANNIS
<http://corpus-tools.org/annis/>(http://corpus-tools.org/annis/) and
the Multilingual RST Treebank
<http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/rst/>(http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/rst/).
*
The European project TextLink was mentioned as an important place to
announce or archive corpora
<http://www.textlink.ii.metu.edu.tr/corpus-view>(http://www.textlink.ii.metu.edu.tr/corpus-view)
and other works related to discourse.
17h – Demo session
*
rstWeb tool: demo session
(https://corpling.uis.georgetown.edu/rstweb/info/)
o
Amir Zeldes
+
Amir presented the rstWeb annotation tool that is he
developed and maintains. It is a web service based
annotation tool which includes a better annotation
environment, where a supervisor can check all the steps done
by annotators.
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At the end of the session a list of features were listed to
improve the rstWeb tool. And he welcomes any other more
ideas to improve the tool.
*
ArText: demo session (http://sistema-artext.com/)
o
Iria da Cunha
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Iria presented the ArText system that uses some RST modules
to help in checking writing errors or inconsistencies, such
as long sentences (with suggestions for how to segment
between EDU boundaries), or repetition of discourse markers
(providing a list of similar markers that can be used in the
same/similar RST relation).
19h – Workshop closure
After a very long and intense day and with interesting discussions and
very welcome comments the workshop was closed.
After the workshop, most of the participants of the workshop enjoyed
traditional Galician food at the restaurant Marte in Santiago de
Compostela.
All the best,
On behalf of the 6th Workshop "Recent Advances in RST and Related
Formalisms"
Mikel Iruskieta
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