32.2902, Confs: Comp Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany (Online)

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Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 07:24:56
From: Anton Benz [benz at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: Annotating QUDs: Desiderata and Approaches

 
Annotating QUDs: Desiderata and Approaches 
Short Title: QUDAnno 

Date: 08-Oct-2021 - 08-Oct-2021 
Location: Online, Germany 
Contact: Anton Benz 
Contact Email: benz at leibniz-zas.de 
Meeting URL: https://www.leibniz-zas.de/en/about-us/events/details/events/annotating-quds-desiderata-and-approaches-qudanno 

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

Meeting Description: 

QUDs are central to many 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 explicit or implicit
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, Roberts, 1996; van
Kuppevelt, 1995; von Stutterheim, 1997), temporal progression and
foreground–background relations in narration (Klein & von Stutterheim, 1987),
information structural constraints on implicature (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 (Klein & von Stutterheim, 1987; 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. As particularly
influential proved Robert’s (1996) semantic account of focus in which she
developed a model of QUD–stacks of super- and sub–ordinated questions such
that answers to the latter provide partial answers to the super-ordinated
questions. Most theories assume that sentences are subordinated to a
focus–congruent question that is again subordinated to higher discourse
structuring questions (see, for example, Klein & von Stutterheim 1987b, van
Kuppevelt 1995, Roberts 1996a; see also Benz & Jasinskaja 2017). Given the
centrality of discourse structuring questions in these theories, there is an
obvious need for text corpora with annotated QUD structures. Some work has
been done in this direction (see, in particular, Kuthy et al., 2018; Riester,
2019). However, further work is needed, in particular, a discussion is needed
about the goals and guidelines that underlie QUD annotation so that the
corpora can be fruitfully used for testing theoretical predictions. 

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from theoretical,
applied, and computational linguistics interested in QUD approaches and their
application in corpus creation and analysis. Points of interest include:

- General desiderata for QUD-annotations
- QUD-tree structures
- implicit, partial, and follow-up QUDs
- information structure, in particular: focus structure and information
partitioning
- modeling argumentative structure and rhetorical relations with QUDs
- the at-issue/not-at-issue distinction
- discourse goals/questions
- QUDs and temporal progression
 

Program:

Friday, October 8, 2021
All times are Central European Time (CET): Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Rome,
Vienna, Warsaw

14:00 – 14:20 Welcome
14:20 – 15:05 Craige Roberts (U Ohio): Some Desiderata for QUD Annotation
15:20 – 16:05 Arndt Riester (U Bielefeld): Recent specifications regarding QUD
annotation
16:20 – 17:05 Christoph Hesse, Ralf Klabunde, Anton Benz (ZAS & U Bochum):
QUD-annotation of argumentative pragmatically rich texts
17:20 – 18:05 Edgar Onea (U Graz): Questions in Perspective. From narrative
text to a narrative web
18:20 – 19:05 Tatjana Scheffler (U Bochum): Computational approaches to
annotation of QUDs
19:10 – 19:30 Maurice Langner, Ralf Klabunde (U Bochum): QUDA: A web-based
tool for QUD annotations

A Zoom link can be found on the conference webpage!





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