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Subject: 30.3238, Calls: Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 04:25:30
From: Debopam Das [dasdebop at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: Explicit and Implicit Coherence Relations: Different, but how exactly?

 
Full Title: Explicit and Implicit Coherence Relations: Different, but how exactly? 

Date: 17-Jan-2020 - 18-Jan-2020
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Debopam Das
Meeting Email: angldisr at hu-berlin.de
Web Site: https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/news/conferences/workshop-coherence-relations/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2019 

Meeting Description:

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:

- Signalling of discourse relations (both by discourse connectives and other
relational markers (lexical or syntactic, etc.), and their correlations)
- Semantics and functions of discourse relations (how relations may differ
with respect to varying linguistic, semantic or pragmatic parameters)
- Discourse parsing (identification of discourse relations and their
arguments, both in the presence and absence of explicit relational signals)
- Psycholinguistic processing of text (both in the presence and absence of
discourse connectives and other relational signals)


Call for Papers:
 
Invited Speakers:

- Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Gisela Redeker, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Vera Demberg, Saarland University, Germany
- Caroline Sporleder, University of Göttingen, Germany
 
Workshop Schedule and Duration:
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. 
 
Organizer:

Debopam Das
(Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Deptartment of English and American Studies
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
 
Program Committee:

Maite Taboada, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany
Hannah Rohde, University of Edinburgh, UK
Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, USA
David Schlangen, University of Potsdam, Germany
Markus Egg, Humboldt University of Berlin

Abstract Submission:

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.

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).

Abstracts can be submitted via email to: angldisr at hu-berlin.de
 
Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: October 1, 2019
Notification of acceptance: Late November, 2019
Workshop date: January 17-18, 2020
 
Contact Email: angldisr at hu-berlin.de




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