[Rstlist] 6th Workshop on RST and related formalisms

[Maite Taboada]

6th Workshop "Recent Advances in RST and Related Formalisms"
https://sites.google.com/site/workshoprst2017/
In conjunction with INLG 2017, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
September 4th, 2017

First Call for Papers
Rhetorical Structure Theory, and in general the study of coherence 
relations, has experienced a revival in the last few years, in English 
and in other languages (da Cunha 2016; Iruskieta et al. 2016; 
Matthiessen & Teruya 2015; Zeldes 2016). Multiple sites are now actively 
engaged in the development of discourse parsers (Feng and Hirst 2014; 
Joty et al. 2015; Surdeanu et al. 2015; Xue 2016), as a goal in 
themselves, but also with applications in mind such as sentiment 
analysis, argumentation mining, summarization, question answering, or 
machine translation evaluation (Benamara et al., to appear; Gerani et 
al. to appear; Durrett et al. 2016; Peldszus & Stede 2016; Scarton et 
al. 2016; Schouten & Frasincar 2016; among many others).

The proposed workshop follows a series of specialized events on 
Rhetorical Structure Theory and discourse studies, organized first in 
Brazil (2007, 2009, 2011, 2013) as part of Brazilian NLP conferences, 
and then in Spain in 2015, as part of the Spanish NLP conference 
(https://sites.google.com/site/workshoprst2015/).

The 6th edition of the workshop will be held on September 4th, 2017, as 
a satellite meeting of the International Conference on Natural Language 
Generation (INLG 2017 – https://eventos.citius.usc.es/inlg2017/index) in 
Spain (Santiago de Compostela). This will be broader workshop, drawing 
program committee members and participants not only from RST, but from 
the wider field of discourse parsing and coherence relations, in RST and 
in related theories and approximations (SDRT, PDTB, CCR). We are 
interested in applied papers, with a computational orientation, but also 
in papers that propose to move the field forward with novel theoretical 
contributions.

We invite submissions on the following and related topics:
- Theoretical explorations of RST (segmentation, relation inventory, 
cognitive status of relations)
- Relation signalling (connectives, but also any other signals)
- Discourse parsing, in RST or related theories, moving ahead from 
shallow to deep discourse parsing
- (Computational) applications of RST and coherence relations in general

PAPER SUBMISSION AND EVALUATION
Participants may submit long or short papers to workshop.rst at gmail.com 
until June 2nd, 2017. Long papers are most appropriate for presenting 
substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of 
content, with up to two additional pages for references. Short papers 
are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must 
not exceed four (4) pages, with up to one extra page for references. 
Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL Anthology 
proceedings and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. NAACL offers 
both LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates.
     Call for Workshop papers or abstracts: April 2017
     Submissions due: June 2, 2017
     Notification of acceptance: July 3, 2017
     Camera-ready papers due: July 20, 2017

Papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Papers which do 
not adhere to the ACL format will not be published.

REGISTRATION
Authors of accepted papers must register for INLG at 
https://eventos.citius.usc.es/inlg2017/registration.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Iria da Cunha (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain)
Paula Cardoso (Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil)
Juliano Desiderato Antonio (Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil)
Erick Galani Maziero (Interinstitutional Center for Computational 
Linguistics, Brazil)
Mikel Iruskieta (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Stergos Afantenos, IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier, France
Farah Benamara, IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier, France
Irene Castellon, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Christian Chiarcos, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany
Maria Beatriz Nascimento Decat, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 
Brazil
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Maria Eduarda Giering, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil
Nancy Green, University of North Carolina, USA
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada
Kerstin Kunz, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
Julia Lavid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Jiri Mirovsky, Charles University, Czech Republic
Anna Nedoluzhko, Charles University, Czech Republic
Thiago Pardo, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Lucie Polakova, Charles University, Czech Republic
Gisela Redeker, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Hannah Rohde, University of Edinburgh, UK
Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Gerardo Sierra, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Christian Stab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Manfred Stede, Universität Potsdam, Germany
Juan-Manuel Torres, Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon, France
Nianwen Xue, Brandeis University, USA
Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, USA



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Maite Taboada
Professor
Department of Linguistics
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Dr.
Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada

Tel +1-778-782-5585
mtaboada at sfu.ca
http://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada  

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