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<pre class="western"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">(Apologies for cross-postings)</font></font>
<b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">DEADLINE EXTENDED, final Call for Papers and Shared Task - Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT 2019)</font></font></b><b>
</b><b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"> 7th Workshop on Rhetorical Structure Theory and Related Formalisms</font></font></b><b>
</b><b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"> In conjunction with: NAACL 2019, June 6</font></font></b>
<b> </b><b><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2019"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2019</font></font></a></b>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">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.</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">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.</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">We invite submissions on the following and related topics, handling any language(s), and especially under-represented ones:</font></font></pre>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Discourse relations
(segmentation, relation inventory, cognitive status of
relations) </font></font> </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Discourse parsing in any
formalism, including shallow and deep discourse parsing </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Relation signaling
(connectives and any other signals) and annotation </font></font>
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<p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt"
size="2">Applications of coherence relations in NLP </font></font>
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<pre class="western"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Invited Speaker:</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">The invited speaker for the workshop will be<b> Bonnie Webber</b> (Institute for Language, Cognition, and Computation, University of Edinburgh) - title: TBA.</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><u><b>Shared Task - Discourse Unit Segmentation Across Formalisms</b></u></font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">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.</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">NOTE: The train, dev and test data for the shared task has been released and is available at: <a href="https://github.com/disrpt/sharedtask2019.">https://github.com/disrpt/sharedtask2019.</a></font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Important Dates</font></font></pre>
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<pre class="western"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Fri, Dec 28 - shared task sample data release</font></font></pre>
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<pre class="western"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Mon, Jan 21 - training data release</font></font></pre>
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<pre class="western"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Fri, Feb 15 - test data release</font></font></pre>
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<pre class="western"><strike><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Thu, Feb 28 - papers due (shared task & regular workshop papers)</font></font></strike></pre>
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<pre class="western"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><b>Thu, March 7 - papers due (shared task & regular workshop papers) <font color="#ce181e">(extended)</font></b></font></font></pre>
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<pre class="western"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Wed, March 27 - notification of acceptance</font></font></pre>
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<pre class="western"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Fri, April 5 - camera-ready papers due</font></font></pre>
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<pre class="western"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">June 6 - workshop</font></font></pre>
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<pre class="western"><u><b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Organization</font></font></b></u>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA)</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Debopam Das (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Erick Galani Maziero (Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil)</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Juliano Desiderato Antonio (Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil)</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Mikel Iruskieta (University of the Basque Country, Spain)</font></font>
<u><b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Program Committee</font></font></b></u>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Stergos Afantenos, IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier, France</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Farah Benamara, IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier, France</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Irene Castellon, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Johann Christian Chiarcos, Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt, </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Germany</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Maria Beatriz Nascimento Decat, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Brazil</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Iria da Cunha, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, University of the Basque Country, Spain</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Maria Eduarda Giering, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Nancy Green, University of North Carolina, USA</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Kerstin Kunz, Universität Heidelberg, Germany</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Jiri Mirovsky, Charles University, Czech Republic</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Anna Nedoluzhko, Charles University, Czech Republic</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Thiago Pardo, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Lucie Polakova, Charles University, Czech Republic</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Gisela Redeker, University of Groningen, Netherlands</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Hannah Rohde, University of Edinburgh, UK</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Gerardo Sierra, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Christian Stab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Manfred Stede, Universität Potsdam, Germany</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Juan-Manuel Torres, Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon, France</font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Nianwen Xue, Brandeis University, USA</font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Mikel
Iruskieta, on behalf of the organizers</font></font></p>
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