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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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style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">4th
        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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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="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:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
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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
        – 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="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;">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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        <p dir="ltr"
          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="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;">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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        <p dir="ltr"
          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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          <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;">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
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;">,
              Margarita Ananyeva, Maria Kobozeva, Alexander Nasedkin,
              Sofia Nikiforova, Irina Pavlova and  Alexey Shelepov</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;">11h30
        – 2nd 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;">
        Juliano D. Antonio chaired the applications session.</span></p>
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style="list-style-type:disc;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;">
        <p dir="ltr"
          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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          <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:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Anayeli
              Paulino de Jesús and Gerardo Sierra    </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></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=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="list-style-type:circle;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;">
          <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;">Jon
              Alkorta</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;">,
              Koldo Gojenola, Mikel Iruskieta and Maite Taboada    </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></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=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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          <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;">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
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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        <p dir="ltr"
          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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          <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;">Olu
              Popoola</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;">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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          <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;">Juliano
              D. Antonio</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;">
              and Ana Cristina Leatte Santin</span></p>
        </li>
      </ul>
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style="list-style-type:disc;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;">
        <p dir="ltr"
          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>
      </li>
      <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
        <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:circle;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;">
          <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:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Shuyuan
              Cao, Nianwen Xue,</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;">
              Iria da Cunha, Mikel Iruskieta</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;">
              and Chuan Wang</span></p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </ul>
    <br>
    <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;">15h30
        – Open Meeting.</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;">
        Chair: Iria da Cunha</span></p>
    <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
      <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;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;">
        <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: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
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, Juliano D. Antonio and Mikel Iruskieta</span></p>
      </li>
      <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;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;">
        <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: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
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 website to announce recent advances and work in
            different languages.</span></p>
      </li>
      <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;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;">
        <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: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
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://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>
      </li>
      <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;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;">
        <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: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"
            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;">corpora</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://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
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 other works related to discourse. </span></p>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <br>
    <br>
    <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;">17h
        – Demo session</span></p>
    <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
      <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
        <p dir="ltr"
          style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><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;">rstWeb
            tool: demo session (</span><a
            href="https://corpling.uis.georgetown.edu/rstweb/info/"
            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;">https://corpling.uis.georgetown.edu/rstweb/info/</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>
      </li>
      <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
        <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:circle;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;">
          <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;">Amir
              Zeldes</span></p>
        </li>
        <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
          <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:square;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;">
            <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: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>
          </li>
          <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:square;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;">
            <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: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>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </ul>
    </ul>
    <br>
    <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
      <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
        <p dir="ltr"
          style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><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;">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>
      </li>
      <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
        <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:circle;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;">
          <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>
        </li>
        <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
          <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:square;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;">
            <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: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>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </ul>
    </ul>
    <br>
    <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;">19h
        – Workshop closure</span></p>
    <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: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>
    <br>
    <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: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>
      </span></p>
    <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:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><br>
      </span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br>
    </p>
    <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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