[Rstlist] A summary of the RST workshop 2017

Mikel Iruskieta mikel.iruskieta at ehu.eus
Sat Sep 9 01:21:53 UTC 2017


Dear all,

We send you a summary of the RST Workshop 2017 that might be of your 
interest.


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4th September - Room A3 - Schedule

Venue: School of Engineering (ETSE), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Location: Campus Vida. Lope Gómez de Marzoa Street.



First of all, we want to thank CITIUS and the local committee of the 
INLG2017 for an excellent organization, and for all their help in 
preparing 6th edition of the RST Workshop. Proceedings of the workshop 
will be available from the ACL Anthology shortly, but the RST Workshop 
page has links to all the papers 
(https://sites.google.com/site/workshoprst2017/schedule).


9h – Opening. The session was opened by Juliano D. Antonio and people 
could follow the workshop with the hashtag #RST2017 by Dave Howcroft.

9h – 1st session.Iria da Cunha chaired a session about fundations of RST 
and theorical approaches using RST.

  *

    Deliberation as Genre: Mapping Argumentation through Relational
    Discourse Structure
    <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMTGFGOVZ6NEE5NHc>

      o

        Oier Imaz and Mikel Iruskieta

  *

    The Good, the Bad, and the Disagreement: Complex ground truth in
    rhetorical structure analysis
    <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMZ2JmUGhNamdoVkk>

      o

        Debopam Das, Manfred Stede and Maite Taboada

  *

    A Distributional View of Discourse Encapsulation: Multifactorial
    Prediction of Coreference Density in RST
    <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMTm5sRUtoQVRrWTg>

      o

        Amir Zeldes

  *

    Rhetorical relations markers in Russian RST Treebank
    <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMYkYtd21XYjZVSGM>

      o

        SvetlanaToldova, Dina Pisarevskaya, Margarita Ananyeva, Maria
        Kobozeva, Alexander Nasedkin, Sofia Nikiforova, Irina Pavlova
        and  Alexey Shelepov


11h30 – 2nd session.Juliano D. Antonio chaired the applications session.


  *

    Applying the Rhetorical Structure Theory in Alzheimer patients'
    speech <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMZ20wRmp5Q2FwTTQ>

      o

        Anayeli Paulino de Jesús and Gerardo Sierra

  *

    Using lexical level information in discourse structures for Basque
    sentiment analysis
    <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMcEtXR3pUTV94UzA>

      o

        Jon Alkorta, Koldo Gojenola, Mikel Iruskieta and Maite Taboada

  *

    Framework for the Analysis of Simplified Texts Taking Discourse into
    Account: the Basque Causal Relations as Case Study
    <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMMVRHdXJDV3hEVTA>

      o

        Itziar Gonzalez-Dios, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza and Mikel Iruskieta

  *

    Using Rhetorical Structure Theory for Detection of Fake Online
    Reviews <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMWXY1OU9OUEhlVVU>

      o

        Olu Popoola


14h30 – 3rd session.Debopam Das chaired the cross-linguistic session.

  *

    “Haters gonna hate”: challenges for sentiment analysis of Facebook
    comments in Brazilian Portuguese
    <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMUzF4ZkFjNnZ2d3M>

      o

        Juliano D. Antonioand Ana Cristina Leatte Santin

  *

    Discourse Segmentation for Building a RST Chinese Treebank
    <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2w9OsTtG6QMM0ViT281YXJGX3M>

      o

        Shuyuan Cao, Nianwen Xue,Iria da Cunha, Mikel Iruskietaand Chuan
        Wang


15h30 – Open Meeting.Chair: Iria da Cunha

  *

    The following RST workshop will be held in 2019 and the organizing
    committee will be composed by Amir Zeldes, Debopam Das, Juliano D.
    Antonio and Mikel Iruskieta

  *

    An updated bibliography related to RST is available at website and
    the website <http://www.sfu.ca/rst/index.html>and people can use the
    RST email list <mailto:LISTSERV at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>and the
    website to announce recent advances and work in different languages.

  *

    Some questions and ideas were discussed about some specific
    segmentation and rhetorical relations, applications for annotate
    relations and signals, parsers, visualization tools for rhetorical
    relation: ANNIS
    <http://corpus-tools.org/annis/>(http://corpus-tools.org/annis/) and
    the Multilingual RST Treebank
    <http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/rst/>(http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/rst/).

  *

    The European project TextLink was mentioned as an important place to
    announce or archive corpora
    <http://www.textlink.ii.metu.edu.tr/corpus-view>(http://www.textlink.ii.metu.edu.tr/corpus-view)
    and other works related to discourse.



17h – Demo session

  *

    rstWeb tool: demo session
    (https://corpling.uis.georgetown.edu/rstweb/info/)

      o

        Amir Zeldes

          +

            Amir presented the rstWeb annotation tool that is he
            developed and maintains. It is a web service based
            annotation tool which includes a better annotation
            environment, where a supervisor can check all the steps done
            by annotators.

          +

            At the end of the session a list of features were listed to
            improve the rstWeb tool. And he welcomes any other more
            ideas to improve the tool.


  *

    ArText: demo session (http://sistema-artext.com/)

      o

        Iria da Cunha

          +

            Iria presented the ArText system that uses some RST modules
            to help in checking writing errors or inconsistencies, such
            as long sentences (with suggestions for how to segment
            between EDU boundaries), or repetition of discourse markers
            (providing a list of similar markers that can be used in the
            same/similar RST relation).


19h – Workshop closure

After a very long and intense day and with interesting discussions and 
very welcome comments the workshop was closed.


After the workshop, most of the participants of the workshop enjoyed 
traditional Galician food at the restaurant Marte in Santiago de 
Compostela.



All the best,
On behalf of the 6th Workshop "Recent Advances in RST and Related 
Formalisms"

Mikel Iruskieta
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