[Rstlist] CFP and Shared Task - Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT 2019)

[Mikel Iruskieta]

(apologies for cross-postings)

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*CFP and Shared Task - Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking 
(DISRPT 2019)*

7th Workshop on Rhetorical Structure Theory and Related Formalisms

In conjunction with: *NAACL 2019*, June 6 or 7 (TBD)

https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2019

Study of coherence relations in frameworks such as RST, SDRT, and PDTB 
has experienced a revival in the last few years, in English and many 
other languages. Multiple sites are now actively engaged in the 
development of discourse parsers as a goal in itself, but also for 
applications such as sentiment analysis, argumentation mining, 
summarization, question answering, or machine translation evaluation. At 
the same time, evaluation of results in discourse parsing has proven 
complicated, and progress in integrating results across discourse 
treebanking frameworks has been slow.

DISRPT 2019 follows a series of biennial events on discourse relation 
studies, which were initially focused especially on RST. The 2019 
workshop aims to broaden the scope of discussion to include different 
discourse theories (especially, but not limited to, RST, SDRT, and 
PDTB). We are interested in applied papers with a computational 
orientation, resource papers and work on discourse parsing, as well as 
papers that advance the field with novel theoretical contributions and 
promote cross-framework fertilization.

We invite submissions on the following and related topics, handling any 
language(s), and especially under-represented ones:

-Discourse relations (segmentation, relation inventory, cognitive status 
of relations).

-Discourse parsing in any formalism, including shallow and deep 
discourse parsing.

-Relation signaling (connectives and any other signals) and annotation.

-Applications of coherence relations in NLP.


    Invited Speaker

The invited speaker for the workshop will be *Bonnie Webber *(Institute 
for Language, Cognition, and Computation, University of Edinburgh) - 
title: TBA.


    Shared Task - Discourse Unit Segmentation Across Formalisms

This workshop introduces the first iteration of a cross-formalism shared 
task on *discourse unit segmentation*. Since all major discourse parsing 
frameworks imply a segmentation of texts into segments, learning 
segmentations for and from diverse resources is a promising area for 
converging methods and insights. We will provide training, development 
and test datasets from all available languages in RST, SDRT, and PDTB, 
using a uniform format. Because different corpora, languages, and 
frameworks use different guidelines, the shared task will promote the 
design of flexible methods for dealing with various guidelines, and will 
help to push forward the discussion of converging standards for 
discourse units. For datasets which have treebanks, we will evaluate in 
two different scenarios: with and without gold syntax.

*Important Dates*

-Fri, Dec 28 - shared task sample data release

-Mon, Jan 21 - training data release

-Fri, Feb 15 - test data release

-Thu, Feb 28 - papers due (shared task & regular workshop papers)

-Wed, March 27 - notification of acceptance

-Fri, April 5 - camera-ready papers due

-June 6/7 (TBD) - workshop


    Organization

Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA)

Debopam Das (Humboldt University of Berlin; University of Potsdam, Germany)

Erick Galani Maziero (Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil)

Juliano Desiderato Antonio (Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil)

Mikel Iruskieta (University of the Basque Country, Spain)


    Program Committee

Stergos Afantenos, IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier, France

Farah Benamara, IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier, France

Irene Castellon, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Johann Christian Chiarcos, Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany

Maria Beatriz Nascimento Decat, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 
Brazil

Iria da Cunha, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain

Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, University of the Basque Country, Spain

Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Maria Eduarda Giering, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil

Nancy Green, University of North Carolina, USA

Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada

Kerstin Kunz, Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany

Jiri Mirovsky, Charles University, Czech Republic

Anna Nedoluzhko, Charles University, Czech Republic

Thiago Pardo, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Lucie Polakova, Charles University, Czech Republic

Gisela Redeker, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Hannah Rohde, University of Edinburgh, UK

Gerardo Sierra, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Christian Stab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Manfred Stede, Universität Potsdam, Germany

Juan-Manuel Torres, Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon, France

Nianwen Xue, Brandeis University, USA

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