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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">(apologies
for cross-postings)</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">CFP
and Shared Task - Discourse Relation Parsing and
Treebanking (DISRPT 2019)</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">7th
Workshop on Rhetorical Structure Theory and Related
Formalisms</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">In
conjunction with: <b>NAACL 2019</b>, June 6 or 7 (TBD)</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a
href="https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2019"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2019</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">
</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">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.</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">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. </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">We
invite submissions on the following and related topics,
handling any language(s), and especially under-represented
ones:</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#212121"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
dir="LTR"></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Discourse
relations (segmentation, relation inventory, cognitive
status of relations).</span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#212121"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
dir="LTR"></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Discourse
parsing in any formalism, including shallow and deep
discourse parsing.</span></p>
<p
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level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#212121"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
dir="LTR"></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Relation
signaling (connectives and any other signals) and
annotation.</span></p>
<p
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#212121"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
dir="LTR"></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Applications
of coherence relations in NLP.</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"> </span></p>
<h2 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Invited
Speaker</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></h2>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">The
invited speaker for the workshop will be <b>Bonnie Webber </b>(Institute
for Language, Cognition, and Computation, University of
Edinburgh) - title: TBA.</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<h2 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></h2>
<h2 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Shared
Task - Discourse Unit Segmentation Across Formalisms</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></h2>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">This
workshop introduces the first iteration of a cross-formalism
shared task on <b>discourse unit segmentation</b>. 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.</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Important
Dates</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p
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level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#212121"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
dir="LTR"></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#212121">Fri,
Dec 28 - shared task sample data release<br>
</span></p>
<p
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level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#212121"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
dir="LTR"></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Mon,
Jan 21 - training data release</span></p>
<p
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level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#212121"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
dir="LTR"></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Fri,
Feb 15 - test data release</span></p>
<p
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level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#212121"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
dir="LTR"></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Thu,
Feb 28 - papers due (shared task & regular workshop
papers)</span></p>
<p
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#212121"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
dir="LTR"></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Wed,
March 27 - notification of acceptance</span></p>
<p
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level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#212121"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
dir="LTR"></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Fri,
April 5 - camera-ready papers due</span></p>
<p
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level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#212121"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
dir="LTR"></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">June
6/7 (TBD) - workshop</span></p>
<p
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"> </span></p>
<h2 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Organization</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></h2>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Amir
Zeldes (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA)</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Debopam
Das (Humboldt University of Berlin; University of Potsdam,
Germany)</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Erick
Galani Maziero (Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil)</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Juliano
Desiderato Antonio (Universidade Estadual de Maringá,
Brazil)</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Mikel
Iruskieta (University of the Basque Country, Spain)</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<h2 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></h2>
<h2 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Program
Committee</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></h2>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Stergos
Afantenos, IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier, France</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Farah
Benamara, IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier, France</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Irene
Castellon, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Johann
Christian Chiarcos, Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt,
Germany</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Maria
Beatriz Nascimento Decat, Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais, Brazil </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Iria
da Cunha, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia,
Spain</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Barbara
Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Arantza
Diaz de Ilarraza, University of the Basque Country, Spain</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Flavius
Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Maria
Eduarda Giering, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos,
Brazil </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Nancy
Green, University of North Carolina, USA</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Graeme
Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"
lang="DE">Kerstin Kunz, Universität Heidelberg, Germany</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="DE"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"
lang="DE">Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Universität des
Saarlandes, Germany</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""
lang="DE"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Jiri
Mirovsky, Charles University, Czech Republic</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Anna
Nedoluzhko, Charles University, Czech Republic</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Thiago
Pardo, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Lucie
Polakova, Charles University, Czech Republic</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Gisela
Redeker, University of Groningen, Netherlands</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Hannah
Rohde, University of Edinburgh, UK</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"
lang="DE">Gerardo Sierra, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, Mexico</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""
lang="DE"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"
lang="DE">Christian Stab, Technische Universität Darmstadt,
Germany</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""
lang="DE"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Manfred
Stede, Universität Potsdam, Germany</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Juan-Manuel
Torres, Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon, France</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Nianwen
Xue, Brandeis University, USA</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
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