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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Call for papers for the workshop “Explicit and implicit coherence relations: Different, but how exactly?”</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Venue:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Date:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> January 17-18, 2020</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Workshop website: </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><a href="https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/news/conferences/workshop-coherence-relations/index.html">https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/news/conferences/workshop-coherence-relations/index.html</a></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Workshop topic and content: </span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>The explicit-implicit divide of discourse relations is of crucial importance in discourse processing, from both a computational and psycholinguistic point of view. Often discourse relations with and without an explicit connective are considered to be equal. Consequently, removing a discourse connective from a given explicit relation (in which the connective originally occurred) is assumed to yield its implicit version (or, at least a relation that is similar or comparable to its ‘true’ implicit version). This workshop intends to discuss whether explicit relations (relations with connectives) differ from implicit ones (relations without connectives), and it aims to explore the phenomenon of relation marking in greater detail. This includes the question of whether/how naturally occurring implicit relations are different from relations from which discourse connectives are deliberately removed. We hope to address these topics from diverse perspectives, and intend to incorporate contributions of researchers from multiple disciplines, such as discourse analysis, pragmatics, corpus linguistics and computational discourse. Specific interests related (but not restricted) to the broad theme of explicit and implicit relations would include:</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US>Signalling of discourse relations (both by discourse connectives and other relational markers (lexical or syntactic, etc.), and their correlations)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US>Semantics and functions of discourse relations (how relations may differ with respect to varying linguistic, semantic or pragmatic parameters)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US>Discourse parsing (identification of discourse relations and their arguments, both in the presence and absence of explicit relational signals)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US>Psycholinguistic processing of text (both in the presence and absence of discourse connectives and other relational signals)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Invited speakers</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Gisela Redeker, University of Groningen, The Netherlands</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Vera Demberg, Saarland University, Germany</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Caroline Sporleder, University of Göttingen, Germany</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Workshop schedule and duration</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>The workshop will be held for two days on January 17-18, 2020. The talks of the invited speakers will be accompanied by a selection of talks submitted in response to the Call for Papers. </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Organizer</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Debopam Das</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>(Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Deptartment of English and American Studies</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Program committee</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Maite Taboada, Simon Fraser University, Canada</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Hannah Rohde, University of Edinburgh, UK</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, USA</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>David Schlangen, University of Potsdam, Germany</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Markus Egg, Humboldt University of Berlin</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Abstract submission</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>We invite submission of extended abstracts on the above-mentioned topics, preferably involving many different languages. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop, for a 30-minute-long talk followed by a 10-minute-long question-answer session.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Abstracts must be anonymous, and should be no longer than two pages of texts, including tables, figures and references. Pages should be US Letter or A4, with one-inch margins, and a minimum font size of 11pt (Times New Roman).</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Abstracts can be submitted via email to: <a href="mailto:angldisr@hu-berlin.de"><b><span style='color:#4477AA'>angldisr@hu-berlin.de</span></b></a></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Important Dates:</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Abstract submission deadline: October 1, 2019</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Notification of acceptance: Late November, 2019</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Workshop date: January 17-18, 2020</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Contact Email:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> <a href="mailto:angldisr@hu-berlin.de"><b><span style='color:#4477AA'>angldisr@hu-berlin.de</span></b></a></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><a href="mailto:angldisr@hu-berlin.de"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#4477AA'><br></span></a></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:black'>Debopam Das</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><br></span><span style='color:black'>Postdoctoral Researcher</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><br></span><span style='color:black'>Department of English and American Studies</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><br></span><span style='color:black'>Humboldt University of Berlin</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><br><a href="mailto:dasdebop@hu-berlin.de"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>dasdebop@hu-berlin.de</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><a href="mailto:dasdebop@hu-berlin.de"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>ddas@sfu.ca</span></a><br><a href="http://www.sfu.ca/~ddas" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>http://www.sfu.ca/~ddas</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Maite Taboada</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Professor | Department of Linguistics<br>Simon Fraser University | RCB 8109<br>8888 University Dr., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6, Canada. <br>T: +1 778 782 5585 | </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><a href="mailto:mtaboada@sfu.ca"><span style='color:windowtext'>mtaboada@sfu.ca</span></a> <br><a href="http://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>