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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>(apologies for cross-postings)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Joint CODI CRAC 2026 Workshop: call for fast-track papers</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:16.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666'>July 2026 - ACL 2026 - San Diego, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Deadline for CODI CRAC fast-track papers: May 1st 2026</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>CODI-CRAC is officially endorsed by SIGDial, the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. More information about the workshop : </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2026/home"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2026/</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>CODI-CRAC 2026 invites you to submit your accepted or rejected conference submission as a fast track paper in either the <b>archival </b>or <b>non-archival </b>track:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>We invite presentations of papers <b>accepted </b>at another main conference, workshop or journal. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings (non-archival). <o:p></o:p></span></li><li style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>We also invite submissions of papers <b>rejected </b>at another main conference, workshop or journal. The reviews should be submitted along with the paper. If accepted, the papers will be presented during the workshop and included in the proceedings (archival). <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:20.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal'>Submission website</span><o:p></o:p></h1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>All submissions must be anonymous and follow the ACL 2026 formatting instructions described here: </span><a href="https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Please indicate the type “non archival” if your paper has been accepted at another conference.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Use the following link: </span><a href="https://softconf.com/acl2026/codi-crac2026/"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>https://softconf.com/acl2026/codi-crac2026/</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:20.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal'>Topics of interest</span><o:p></o:p></h1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>We welcome papers on symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=FR style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- discourse structure</span><span lang=FR><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=FR style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- discourse connectives</span><span lang=FR><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=FR style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- discourse relations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- long-form question answering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- corpora annotated with discourse phenomena</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- discourse parsing</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- cross-lingual discourse processing</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- cross-domain discourse processing</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- anaphora and coreference resolution</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- event coreference</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- argument mining</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- coherence modeling</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- discourse and semantics</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- evaluation methodology for discourse processing</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- discourse pretraining tasks</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- long-text modeling and generation</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:20.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal'>Schedule</span><o:p></o:p></h1><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Important dates for the workshop are listed below:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Pre-reviewed fast-track (with reviews, can be accepted or rejected): May 1st <o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Notification of acceptance: May 8, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Student D&I Grant application: May 19, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Camera-ready paper due: May 19, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Pre-recorded video due: June 4, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Workshop dates: July 3 or 4, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:20.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal'>Organizers</span><o:p></o:p></h1><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Chuyuan Li, University of British Columbia</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Michal Novák, Charles University, Prague</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University of London and University of Utrecht</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, Washington DC</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>To contact the organizers, please send an email to: </span><a href="mailto:codi-crac-workshop@googlegroups.com"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>codi-crac-workshop@googlegroups.com</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>