[Rstlist] Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT 2019): Second call for papers and shared task

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(Apologies for cross-postings)

Second Call for Papers 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

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.

NOTE: The training data for the shared task has been released and is 
available at:
https://github.com/disrpt/sharedtask2019.

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 - workshop

Organization

Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA)
Debopam Das (Humboldt University of Berlin, 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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Debopam Das
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of English and American Studies
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
dasdebop at hu-berlin.de
debdas at uni-potsdam.de; ddas at sfu.ca
http://www.sfu.ca/~ddas