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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'>Dear colleagues,<br><br>This year, we're organizing DISRPT 2021 as a shared task on discourse processing across formalisms. This shared task provides three tasks, using a uniform format across RST, SDRT and PDTB for a variety of languages and genres:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'><br>* Task 1 - Discourse Segmentation,<br>* Task 2 - Connective Identification,<br>* Task 3 - Relation Classification.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>W<span style='background:white'>e invite researchers interested in participating in one or more tasks to pre-register using the following form: <a href="https://forms.gle/VaR4qSo3RPGMUYxi7" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/VaR4qSo3RPGMUYxi7</a></span></span></strong><br>Pre-registration is not a requirement for participation, but to better organize our planning, we ask interested teams to respond <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>by March 15</span></strong>; pre-registered teams will also receive e-mail updates whenever new data is made available for the shared task<span style='background:white'> <br><br>DISRPT 2021 is organized in conjunction with the CODI 2021 workshop that will be held during EMNLP 2021. <br>Contact email: <a href="mailto:disrpt2021@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">disrpt2021@googlegroups.com</a><br>Official website: <a href="https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/disrpt2021" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/disrpt2021</a><br></span><br><span style='background:white'>Tentative schedule:</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>March, 2021 - shared task sample data release</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>May, 2021 - training data release</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>July, 2021 - test data release</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>August, 2021 - papers and systems due</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>September, 2021 - notification of acceptance</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>October, 2021 - camera-ready papers due</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>November, 2021 - CODI workshop</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><br><span style='background:white'>We hope that many of you will accept the challenge! <br><br>All the best,<br><br>Organizers: Amir Zeldez, Mikel Iruskieta, Janet Liu, Philippe Muller and Chloé Braud</span></span><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>