DiscAnn2020: Integrating Perspectives on Discourse Annotation ESSLLI 2020, the 30th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information Utrecht, Netherlands, August 3-7, 2020 |
Conference website | https://discannworkshop.github.io/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=discann2020 |
Submission deadline | March 8, 2020 |
Reflecting the substantial interest in analyzing language beyond the
sentence level in linguistics, computational linguistics,
psycholinguistics, and applied domains, this workshop aims at bringing
together researchers from the various subdisciplines that are working
on aspects of discourse annotation. Advances in formal pragmatics are
extending the empirical reach of linguistic analyses. Computational
linguistic research on dialogue and discourse structure has produced
multi-layer corpus annotation efforts such as NXT Switchboard or the
Penn Discourse Treebank. Applications include dialogue systems and
argumentation mining.
This workshop is designed as a joint forum for the range of
perspectives on discourse feeding and complementing each other. This
includes research on the analysis and annotation of
- discourse relations, be it related to frameworks such as RST, SDRT,
or applications such as argumentation mining, and
- information structural concepts (Topic/Focus, Givenness, Questions
under Discussion).
Equally of interest are methodological issues related to such
annotation, such as reflections on
- manual annotation, e.g., evaluating annotations schemes and the
reliability of the annotation,
- crowdsourcing annotation, potentially supporting the annotation of
some aspects for larger data sets, and
- the automatic labelling using computational approaches.
Relatedly, we are interested in a discussion of the sources of
evidence that different annotation schemes and annotation methods rely
on. Where are annotations based on linguistic forms (bottom-up
observable in the language data) and where are they grounded in
discourse properties (top-down, from context or task)?
The workshop is designed to foster the interaction and cooperation of
researchers working in different frameworks and using different
annotations methods and document the current state-of-the-art in the
field of discourse annotation.
Submission Guidelines
We invite papers of 4 pages (plus unlimited references) using the
short paper ACL 2020 style templates available for LaTeX and Word at
http://acl2020.org/downloads/acl2020-templates.zip or on Overleaf at
https://overleaf.com/latex/templates/acl-2020-proceedings-template/zsrkcwjptpcd
Based on the workshop theme, topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:
- the analysis and annotation of discourse relations, be it related to
frameworks such as RST, SDRT, or applications such as argumentation
mining
- the analysis and annotation of information structural concepts
(Topic/Focus, Givenness, Questions under Discussion)
- methodological issues, such as reflections on i) manual annotation,
e.g., evaluating annotations schemes and the reliability of the
annotation, ii) crowdsourcing annotation, potentially supporting the
annotation of some aspects for larger data sets, and iii) the
automatic labelling using computational approaches.
- project descriptions and progress reports for research focused on or
integrating discourse annotation
- tools that support discourse annotation concepts and goals,
including conceptual explorations of wish lists or tool
specifications
- research speaking to the gap between qualitative linguistic analysis
and empirically broad analysis of ecologically valid data
While the presentation language at the workshop is English, we
encourage research on a broad range of languages.
Submission are submitted electronically using EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=discann2020
Reviewing will be double blind, so obvious self-references should be
avoided and acknowledgements should not be included. We will
electronically publish proceedings with the accepted, final versions
of the papers (in a form with a permanent URN making it citable).
Committees
Program Committee
- Lisa Brunetti (Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, France)
- Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
- Christian Chiarcos (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
- Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (The Ohio State University, USA)
- Cornelia Ebert (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
- Katrin Erk (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
- Eva Hajičová (Charles University, Czech Republic)
- Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada)
- Andrew Kehler (UC San Diego, USA)
- Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
- Chris Potts (Stanford University, USA)
- Ines Rehbein (University of Mannheim, Germany)
- Arndt Riester (University of Cologne, Germany)
- Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Merel C.J. Scholman (Saarland University, Germany)
- Manfred Stede (University of Potsdam, Germany)
- Simone Teufel (University of Cambridge, England)
- Judith Tonhauser (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
- Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne, Germany)
- Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University, USA)
- Deniz Zeyrek (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
- Šárka Zikánová (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Organizing committee
- Kordula De Kuthy (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Detmar Meurers (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to discann@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de