[Rstlist] CFP: Workshop "Explicit and implicit coherence relations: Different, but how exactly?"

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Call for papers for the workshop “Explicit and implicit coherence relations:
Different, but how exactly?”

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin,
Germany

Date: January 17-18, 2020

Workshop website: 

https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/news/conferences/workshop-coherence-relations/
index.html

Workshop topic and content: 

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)

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:  <mailto:angldisr at hu-berlin.de>
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:  <mailto:angldisr at hu-berlin.de> angldisr at hu-berlin.de

 <mailto:angldisr at hu-berlin.de> 

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Debopam Das
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of English and American Studies
Humboldt University of Berlin
 <mailto:dasdebop at hu-berlin.de> dasdebop at hu-berlin.de

 <mailto:dasdebop at hu-berlin.de> ddas at sfu.ca
 <http://www.sfu.ca/~ddas> http://www.sfu.ca/~ddas

Maite Taboada
Professor | Department of Linguistics
Simon Fraser University | RCB 8109
8888 University Dr., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6, Canada. 
T: +1 778 782 5585 |  <mailto:mtaboada at sfu.ca> mtaboada at sfu.ca 
 <http://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada> http://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada

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