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6th Workshop "Recent Advances in RST and Related Formalisms"<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://sites.google.com/site/workshoprst2017/">https://sites.google.com/site/workshoprst2017/</a><br>
In conjunction with INLG 2017, Santiago de Compostela, Spain<br>
September 4th, 2017<br>
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First Call for Papers<br>
Rhetorical Structure Theory, and in general the study of coherence
relations, has experienced a revival in the last few years, in
English and in other languages (da Cunha 2016; Iruskieta et al.
2016; Matthiessen & Teruya 2015; Zeldes 2016). Multiple sites
are now actively engaged in the development of discourse parsers
(Feng and Hirst 2014; Joty et al. 2015; Surdeanu et al. 2015; Xue
2016), as a goal in themselves, but also with applications in mind
such as sentiment analysis, argumentation mining, summarization,
question answering, or machine translation evaluation (Benamara et
al., to appear; Gerani et al. to appear; Durrett et al. 2016;
Peldszus & Stede 2016; Scarton et al. 2016; Schouten &
Frasincar 2016; among many others).<br>
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The proposed workshop follows a series of specialized events on
Rhetorical Structure Theory and discourse studies, organized first
in Brazil (2007, 2009, 2011, 2013) as part of Brazilian NLP
conferences, and then in Spain in 2015, as part of the Spanish NLP
conference (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://sites.google.com/site/workshoprst2015/">https://sites.google.com/site/workshoprst2015/</a>).<br>
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The 6th edition of the workshop will be held on September 4th, 2017,
as a satellite meeting of the International Conference on Natural
Language Generation (INLG 2017 – <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://eventos.citius.usc.es/inlg2017/index">https://eventos.citius.usc.es/inlg2017/index</a>)
in Spain (Santiago de Compostela). This will be broader workshop,
drawing program committee members and participants not only from
RST, but from the wider field of discourse parsing and coherence
relations, in RST and in related theories and approximations (SDRT,
PDTB, CCR). We are interested in applied papers, with a
computational orientation, but also in papers that propose to move
the field forward with novel theoretical contributions.<br>
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We invite submissions on the following and related topics:<br>
- Theoretical explorations of RST (segmentation, relation inventory,
cognitive status of relations)<br>
- Relation signalling (connectives, but also any other signals)<br>
- Discourse parsing, in RST or related theories, moving ahead from
shallow to deep discourse parsing<br>
- (Computational) applications of RST and coherence relations in
general<br>
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PAPER SUBMISSION AND EVALUATION<br>
Participants may submit long or short papers to <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:workshop.rst@gmail.com">workshop.rst@gmail.com</a>
until June 2nd, 2017. Long papers are most appropriate for
presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight
(8) pages of content, with up to two additional pages for
references. Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an
ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, with up
to one extra page for references. Submissions should follow the
two-column format of ACL Anthology proceedings and be anonymised for
double blind reviewing. NAACL offers both LaTeX style files and
Microsoft Word templates.<br>
Call for Workshop papers or abstracts: April 2017<br>
Submissions due: June 2, 2017<br>
Notification of acceptance: July 3, 2017<br>
Camera-ready papers due: July 20, 2017 <br>
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Papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Papers which
do not adhere to the ACL format will not be published.<br>
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REGISTRATION<br>
Authors of accepted papers must register for INLG at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://eventos.citius.usc.es/inlg2017/registration">https://eventos.citius.usc.es/inlg2017/registration</a>.<br>
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<br>
Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University, Canada)<br>
Iria da Cunha (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain)<br>
Paula Cardoso (Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil)<br>
Juliano Desiderato Antonio (Universidade Estadual de Maringá,
Brazil)<br>
Erick Galani Maziero (Interinstitutional Center for Computational
Linguistics, Brazil)<br>
Mikel Iruskieta (University of the Basque Country, Spain)<br>
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br>
Stergos Afantenos, IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier, France<br>
Farah Benamara, IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier, France<br>
Irene Castellon, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain<br>
Christian Chiarcos, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt,
Germany<br>
Maria Beatriz Nascimento Decat, Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais, Brazil <br>
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA<br>
Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, University of the Basque Country, Spain<br>
Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands<br>
Maria Eduarda Giering, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos,
Brazil <br>
Nancy Green, University of North Carolina, USA<br>
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada<br>
Kerstin Kunz, Universität Heidelberg, Germany<br>
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany<br>
Julia Lavid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain<br>
Jiri Mirovsky, Charles University, Czech Republic<br>
Anna Nedoluzhko, Charles University, Czech Republic<br>
Thiago Pardo, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil<br>
Lucie Polakova, Charles University, Czech Republic<br>
Gisela Redeker, University of Groningen, Netherlands<br>
Hannah Rohde, University of Edinburgh, UK<br>
Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain<br>
Gerardo Sierra, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico<br>
Christian Stab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany<br>
Manfred Stede, Universität Potsdam, Germany<br>
Juan-Manuel Torres, Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon, France<br>
Nianwen Xue, Brandeis University, USA<br>
Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, USA<br>
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Maite Taboada
Professor
Department of Linguistics
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Dr.
Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
Tel +1-778-782-5585
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mtaboada@sfu.ca">mtaboada@sfu.ca</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sfu.ca/%7Emtaboada">http://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada</a>
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