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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='background:white'>Dear colleagues,<br><br>We are happy to announce the release of <b>test data </b>for this year’s DISRPT shared task on discourse relations across formalisms, as well as <b>a surprise language dataset</b>: the Persian RST Corpus (<a href="https://github.com/hadiveisi/PersianRST">https://github.com/hadiveisi/PersianRST</a>). Training and development data can now be found at the repository for the shared task, which is co-located with CODI 2021 at EMNLP 2021:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'><a href="https://github.com/disrpt/sharedtask2021">https://github.com/disrpt/sharedtask2021</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'>The repository covers 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 style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='background:white'><br>* Task 1 - Discourse Segmentation,<br>* Task 2 - Connective Identification,<br>* Task 3 - Relation Classification.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><span style='background:white'>Contact email: </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><a href="mailto:disrpt2021@googlegroups.com" target="_blank"><span style='background:white'>disrpt2021@googlegroups.com</span></a></span><span style='background:white'><br>Official website: </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><a href="https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/disrpt2021" target="_blank"><span style='background:white'>https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/disrpt2021</span></a></span><span style='background:white'><br></span><br><span style='background:white'>Tentative schedule:</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'><s>March, 2021 - shared task sample data release<o:p></o:p></s></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><s>May, 2021 - training data release<o:p></o:p></s></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><s>July, 2021 - test data release<o:p></o:p></s></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'>August, 2021 - papers and systems due<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'>September, 2021 - notification of acceptance<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'>October, 2021 - camera-ready papers due<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'>November, 2021 - CODI workshop<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='background:white'><br>All the best,<br><br>Organizers: Amir Zeldes, Mikel Iruskieta, Janet Liu, Philippe Muller and Chloé Braud</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>