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<p>Dear all,<br>
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<p>We send you a summary of the RST Workshop 2017 that might be of
your interest.</p>
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September - Room A3 - Schedule</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Venue:
School of Engineering (ETSE), Universidade de Santiago de
Compostela</span></p>
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center;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Location:
Campus Vida. Lope Gómez de Marzoa Street.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">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 (</span><a
href="https://sites.google.com/site/workshoprst2017/schedule"
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">https://sites.google.com/site/workshoprst2017/schedule</span></a><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">).</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">9h
– Opening. </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
session was opened by Juliano D. Antonio and people could follow
the workshop with the hashtag #RST2017 by Dave Howcroft.</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">9h
– 1st session.</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
Iria da Cunha chaired a session about fundations of RST and
theorical approaches using RST. </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMTGFGOVZ6NEE5NHc"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Deliberation
as Genre: Mapping Argumentation through Relational
Discourse Structure</span></a></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Oier
Imaz and </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Mikel
Iruskieta</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMZ2JmUGhNamdoVkk"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">The
Good, the Bad, and the Disagreement: Complex ground truth
in rhetorical structure analysis</span></a></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Debopam
Das</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">,
Manfred Stede and Maite Taboada</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMTm5sRUtoQVRrWTg"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">A
Distributional View of Discourse Encapsulation:
Multifactorial Prediction of Coreference Density in RST</span></a></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Amir
Zeldes</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMYkYtd21XYjZVSGM"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Rhetorical
relations markers in Russian RST Treebank</span></a></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Svetlana</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Toldova</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">,
</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Dina
Pisarevskaya</span><span
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Margarita Ananyeva, Maria Kobozeva, Alexander Nasedkin,
Sofia Nikiforova, Irina Pavlova and Alexey Shelepov</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">11h30
– 2nd session.</span><span
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Juliano D. Antonio chaired the applications session.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMZ20wRmp5Q2FwTTQ"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Applying
the Rhetorical Structure Theory in Alzheimer patients'
speech</span></a></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Anayeli
Paulino de Jesús and Gerardo Sierra </span><span
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMcEtXR3pUTV94UzA"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Using
lexical level information in discourse structures for
Basque sentiment analysis</span></a></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Jon
Alkorta</span><span
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Koldo Gojenola, Mikel Iruskieta and Maite Taboada </span><span
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMMVRHdXJDV3hEVTA"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Framework
for the Analysis of Simplified Texts Taking Discourse into
Account: the Basque Causal Relations as Case Study</span></a></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Itziar
Gonzalez-Dios</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">,
Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza and Mikel Iruskieta</span><span
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMWXY1OU9OUEhlVVU"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Using
Rhetorical Structure Theory for Detection of Fake Online
Reviews</span></a></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Olu
Popoola</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">14h30
– 3rd session.</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
Debopam Das chaired the cross-linguistic session.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMUzF4ZkFjNnZ2d3M"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">“Haters
gonna hate”: challenges for sentiment analysis of Facebook
comments in Brazilian Portuguese</span></a></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Juliano
D. Antonio</span><span
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and Ana Cristina Leatte Santin</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMM0ViT281YXJGX3M"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Discourse
Segmentation for Building a RST Chinese Treebank</span></a></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Shuyuan
Cao, Nianwen Xue,</span><span
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Iria da Cunha, Mikel Iruskieta</span><span
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and Chuan Wang</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">15h30
– Open Meeting.</span><span
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Chair: Iria da Cunha</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
following RST workshop will be held in 2019 and the
organizing committee will be composed by </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Amir
Zeldes</span><span
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Debopam Das, Juliano D. Antonio and Mikel Iruskieta</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">An
updated bibliography related to RST is available at website
and the </span><a href="http://www.sfu.ca/rst/index.html"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">website</span></a><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
and people can use the </span><a
href="mailto:LISTSERV@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">RST
email list</span></a><span
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and the website to announce recent advances and work in
different languages.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">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: </span><a
href="http://corpus-tools.org/annis/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">ANNIS</span></a><span
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(</span><a href="http://corpus-tools.org/annis/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">http://corpus-tools.org/annis/</span></a><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">)
and the </span><a href="http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/rst/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Multilingual
RST Treebank</span></a><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
(</span><a href="http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/rst/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/rst/</span></a><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">).</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
European project TextLink was mentioned as an important
place to announce or archive </span><a
href="http://www.textlink.ii.metu.edu.tr/corpus-view"
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">corpora</span></a><span
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(</span><a
href="http://www.textlink.ii.metu.edu.tr/corpus-view"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">http://www.textlink.ii.metu.edu.tr/corpus-view</span></a><span
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and other works related to discourse. </span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">17h
– Demo session</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">rstWeb
tool: demo session (</span><a
href="https://corpling.uis.georgetown.edu/rstweb/info/"
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">https://corpling.uis.georgetown.edu/rstweb/info/</span></a><span
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<p dir="ltr"
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Amir
Zeldes</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">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. </span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">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. </span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">ArText:
demo session (</span><a href="http://sistema-artext.com/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">http://sistema-artext.com/</span></a><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Iria
da Cunha</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">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).</span></p>
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– Workshop closure</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">After
a very long and intense day and with interesting discussions and
very welcome comments the workshop was closed. </span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">After
the workshop, most of the participants of the workshop enjoyed
traditional Galician food at the restaurant Marte in Santiago de
Compostela. <br>
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<p><span class="b5">All the best, <br>
On behalf of the 6th Workshop "Recent Advances in RST and
Related Formalisms"<br>
</span></p>
<span class="b5">Mikel Iruskieta</span>
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