Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:02:30 +0000
From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@cs.vassar.edu>
Subject: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS : ACL Workshop on Discourse
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> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
> DEADLINE MARCH 30, 1999
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> ACL'99 WORKSHOP
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> THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DISCOURSE/DIALOGUE STRUCTURE AND REFERENCE
> June 21 1999
> University of Maryland
>
>
> Sponsored by SIGDIAL
> ACL Special Interest Group (SIG) on Discourse and Dialogue
>
> -o-
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>The relationship between the structure of discourse and dialogue and
>the use of referring expressions has been the focus of much research
>in linguistics, computational linguistics, and
>psycholinguistics. Although individual efforts have been couched in a
>variety of frameworks ranging from (S)DRT and RST to Centering, they
>all share two underlying assumptions:
>
> 1. The structure of discourse affects the interpretation of
> referring expressions and the space of anaphoric accessibility.
>
> 2. The use of referring expressions restricts the set of possible
> discourse interpretations.
>
>However, most approaches address only one of these two views on the
>relation between structure and reference. And although several
>theories explaining this relationship exist, few have made a
>significant impact on practical applications such as discourse
>parsing, summarization, generation, and name-entity recognition.
>
>This workshop will provide a forum for researchers in all areas of
>linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics who are
>interested in advancing the state of the art in understanding the
>relationship between discourse/dialogue structure and
>reference. Submissions are invited on, but not limited to, the
>following topics and issues:
>
>1. Linguistic issues:
>
> o what is the relation between lexical-grammatical constructs,
> referring expressions, and the structure of discourse/dialogue?
>
>2. Psycholinguistic issues:
>
> o how does the use of referents affect the human interpretation of
> discourse/dialogue?
>
>3. Corpus-specific issues:
>
> o what coding schemata and annotation tools should one use in
> order to encode the relation between discourse/dialogue
> structure and reference?
>
>4. Representation issues:
>
> o how should discourse/dialogue structures and referents be
> represented?
>
> o how should one represent the relationship between them: as
> preferences or as constraints?
>
>5. Algorithmic issues:
>
> o how can discourse/dialogue structures, referents, and co-
> referential links be identified and computed?
>
> o knowledge-intensive vs. shallow approaches
>
> o rule-driven vs. statistical vs. corpus-based approaches
>
> o Wordnet-based approaches
>
> o how do discourse/dialogue structure and referential expressions
> interact in natural language generation?
>
>6. General issues:
>
> o what are the commonalities of current approaches to studying the
> relation between discourse/dialogue and referents?
>
> o what are the differences?
>
> o what are the arguments against a relation between
> discourse/dialogue structure and reference?
>
> o how language-dependent is the relation between discourse/dialogue
> structure and reference?
>
>
>Post-Workshop Dissemination:
>
>Selected papers from the workshop will be compiled into a volume
>tentatively scheduled to appear in the Text, Speech, and Language
>Technology book series from Kluwer Academic Publishers.
>
>
>Submission Procedure:
>
>Authors are requested to submit one electronic version of their papers
>OR four hardcopies. Please submit hardcopies only if electronic
>submission is impossible. Maximum length is 8 pages including figures
>and references. Please conform to the traditional two-column ACL
>Proceedings format.
>
>Style files can be downloaded from
>
> http://www.isi.edu/~marcu/stylefiles/
> ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/acl-l/Styfiles/Proceedings/
>
>
>
>Submissions should be sent to:
>
>Nancy Ide
>Department of Computer Science
>Vassar College
>124 Raymond Avenue
>Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA
>Fax: (+1 914) 437 7498
>WWW: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide
>E-mail: ide@cs.vassar.edu
>
>
>Timetable:
>
>Deadline for submissions: March 30, 1999.
>Notification of acceptance: April 30, 1999.
>Camera ready copies due: May 20,1999.
>
>
>Organizing committee:
>
>Dan Cristea
>Department of Computer Science
>University "A.I. Cuza" (Romania)
>
>Nancy Ide
>Department of Computer Science
>Vassar College
>
>Daniel Marcu
>Information Sciences Institute/
>University of Southern California
>
>
>Program Committee:
>
>Nicholas Asher, University of Texas
>Eugene Charniak, Brown University
>Udo Hahn, Freiburg University
>Lynette Hirschman, MITRE Corp.
>Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto
>Massimo Poesio, University of Edinburgh
>Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen
>Michael Strube, University of Pennsylvania
>Wietske Vonk, Max Planck Institute
>Marilyn Walker, AT&T
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