29.5111, Confs: Computational Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 29.5111, Confs: Computational Linguistics/USA

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Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 23:49:45
From: Juliano Antonio [prof.jdantonio at gmail.com]
Subject: Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking - 7th Workshop on Rhetorical Structure Theory and Related Formalisms

 
Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking - 7th Workshop on Rhetorical Structure Theory and Related Formalisms 
Short Title: DISRPT 2019 

Date: 06-Jun-2019 - 07-Jun-2019 
Location: Minneapolis, USA 
Contact: Juliano Antonio 
Contact Email: jdantonio at uem.br 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2019 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

CFP and Shared Task - Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT 2019)

7th Workshop on Rhetorical Structure Theory and Related Formalisms

In conjunction with: NAACL 2019, June 6 or 7 (TBD)

https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2019

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.

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.

We invite submissions on the following and related topics, handling any
language(s), and especially under-represented ones:

- Discourse relations (segmentation, relation inventory, cognitive status of
relations)

- Discourse parsing in any formalism, including shallow and deep discourse
parsing

- Relation signaling (connectives and any other signals) and annotation

- Applications of coherence relations in NLP

Invited Speaker:

The invited speaker for the workshop will be Bonnie Webber (Institute for
Language, Cognition, and Computation, University of Edinburgh) - title: TBA.
 
Shared Task - Discourse Unit Segmentation Across Formalisms

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.

Important Dates:

- Fri, Dec 28 - shared task sample data release

- Mon, Jan 21 - training data release

- Fri, Feb 15 - test data release

- Thu, Feb 28 - papers due (shared task & regular workshop papers)

- Wed, March 27 - notification of acceptance

- Fri, April 5 - camera-ready papers due

- June 6/7 (TBD) - workshop

Organization:

Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA)
Debopam Das (Humboldt University of Berlin; University of Potsdam, Germany)
Erick Galani Maziero (Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil)
Juliano Desiderato Antonio (Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil)
Mikel Iruskieta (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
 






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