31.2920, Calls: Comp Ling, Ling Theories, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Ling/Ireland

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Subject: 31.2920, Calls: Comp Ling, Ling Theories, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Ling/Ireland

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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:00:18
From: Ralf Klabunde [ralf.klabunde at rub.de]
Subject: Workshop on Discourse Theories for Text Planning

 
Full Title: Workshop on Discourse Theories for Text Planning 
Short Title: DiTherPlan 

Date: 15-Dec-2020 - 15-Dec-2020
Location: Dublin, Ireland 
Contact Person: Ralf Klabunde
Meeting Email: ralf.klabunde at rub.de
Web Site: https://pragma.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/workshopINLG2020/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 06-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

The aim of this workshop is to explore the interplay of linguistic theories of
text planning-related phenomena with computational approaches to text
planning, be it rule-based or learning approaches, in order to bring these
fields of expertise together. 

Text or document planning as the mechanism of ordering messages in a coherent
way for achieving a cohesive text has traditionally been realized by schemas
or the establishment of rhetorical relations between messages and message
sequences. Inspired by the descriptions of a comprehensive set of rhetorical
relations in Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), these relations have often
been realized as planning operators for achieving a complete text. The rise of
machine learning approaches for NLG tasks seems to hide the fact that
RST-oriented text planning is by far not the only method for achieving
linguistically relevant text plans.

Formal semantics and pragmatics offer a number of different theories on text
organization and coherence phenomena whose explanatory power goes beyond the
justified grouping of informational units, among them (Segmented) Discourse
Representation Theory (SDRT), Question-under-discussion (QUD) approaches, and
probabilistic approaches to meaning. This workshop addresses the relevance of
these theories for text planning.

For example, QUD approaches to text structuring provide expressive theories
facilitating concise analyses of a group of different pragmatic phenomena,
ranging from the analysis of focus/background structures to dialogue moves,
but they did not receive much attention for text planning issues in NLG. QUDs
are the central concept in analyses that explain linguistic regularities as a
consequence of the assumption that the sentences and text segments with which
the regularities are associated are answers to an explicitly or implicitly
asked question. QUDs were early on used for explaining possible sequences of
dialogue moves (Carlson, 1983; Ginzburg, 1996), clarifying information
structural concepts (e.g. the topic/focus distinction), temporal progression
and foreground†“background relations in narration, information structural
constraints on implicatures (van Kuppevelt, 1996), representing discourse
goals and defining contextual relevance (Roberts, 1996), and for analysing
structure and coherence of discourse, of both text and dialogue (van
Kuppevelt, 1995). Since then, QUDs have been firmly established as an analytic
tool, leading to fruitful applications for a wide range of linguistic
phenomena.

The aim of this workshop is to explore the interplay of linguistic theories of
text planning-related phenomena with computational approaches to text
planning, be it rule-based or learning approaches, in order to bring these
fields of expertise together.


Call for Papers:

Please note that the deadline has been extended to October 6, 2020! 

We invite submissions of extended abstracts (3 pages including references),
related to all aspects of text planning from a linguistic, theoretical and
computational point of view. Topics of the workshop include, but are not
limited to, the following issues:

- computational models of text planning
- corpus annotation of text structures and its interaction with information
structure, discourse relations, dialogue goals etc.
- formal approaches to pragmatics and their relation to issues of text
planning

Submissions are made via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dt4tp

In order to foster the exchange of ideas, we intend a kind of semi-shared task
for this workshop: We will provide a small corpus of annotated texts to be
generated and a paper that addresses the workshop task so that each workshop
speaker does not only present his/her own research, but outlines his or her
own ideas on generating these texts. The analysis of one and the same texts
from different theoretical perspectives should shed light on the pros and cons
of using various theory-driven approaches to text planning. We will make the
data available after the submission of the abstracts.




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