Cross-Linguistic Discourse Annotation: Towards Shared Resources, Tools and Methods

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Abstracts
Abbreviated Title: 
Cross-Linguistic Discourse Annotation
Location: 
Karoli Gaspar University
Monday, 11 April 2016 to Wednesday, 13 April 2016
Country: 
Hungary
City: 
Budapest
Contact: 
Peter Furko
Liesbeth Degand
Submission Deadline: 
Friday, 15 January 2016

Call for Abstracts

The TextLink COST Action addresses Discourse Relational Devices (DRDs) in terms of
resources, annotation models (including their comparability), and tools both for
annotating DRDs and interconnecting annotated data. With a network covering research on
no less than 20 different languages, written as well as spoken discourse, in a variety
of genres and registers, and corpora that range from "in construction" to "fully annotated",
the second Action Conference will constitute a milestone in (re)defining the objectives
that need to be reached in view of constructing a TextLink Portal that make these resources
and tools more widely known and available.

The meeting is open to everyone, both current members of TextLink and other researchers
and practitioners working in the area.

* Venue : Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church, Budapest
* Dates : 11 – 13 April 2016

In addition to the main meeting, there will be a WG2 workshop on 14 April 2016, focusing
on the comparison of annotation schemes and their interfacing.

More info: http://textlink.ii.metu.edu.tr/node/788

Invited speakers :
* Andrei Popescu-Belis (Idiap, Genève)
* Nina Vyatkina (University of Kansas)

We invite presentations on topics closely related to specific TextLink goals:
- Development of DRD-annotated resources
- Development of DRD-lexicons
- Comparison of existing resources and their metadata
- (Cross-linguistic) interoperability of annotation schemes
- Challenges for existing annotation schemes
- Using existing resources to identify and gather data on DRDs in mono-lingual and
cross-lingual resources
- Correlating DRDs with other types of linguistic data (syntactic analyses, semantic
roles, modality, aspect, etc.)
- Tools for the (semi-)automatic annotation of DRDs
- Proof-of-Concept proposals for TextLink portal

Presentation formats :
- oral
- poster
- demos

The conference will host three different types of sessions :
- Presentation of joint work between DIFFERENT TextLink partners, including results
from STSM research, joint projects, …)
- Theoretical and methodological research in line with the TextLink objectives
- Discussion of use cases that the TextLink tools and methods should address

Submission Information :
We invite the submission of abstracts of up to one page of content (excluding
references). All submissions have to be in pdf format. We will be using the
EasyChair conference system to manage submissions:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tl2016

Important Dates:
* Submission of Abstracts : 15 January 2016
* Notification of Acceptance : 30 January 2016
* Registration : 15 February 2016

Information regarding venue, accommodation, registration fees will be communicated in
the Call for Participation. Up to 50 grants contributing to travel and accommodation costs
will be available for participants according to the COST rules.

Organising Committee :
Liesbeth Degand, Peter Furkó, Csilla Dér, Judit Nagy, Alexandra Fodor, Ágnes Abuczki,
Anna Nagy

Program Committee :
Maria Josep Cuenca (University of Valencia)
Liesbeth Degand (University of Louvain)
Peter Furkó (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary)
Daniel Hardt (Copenhagen Business School)
Jiří Mírovský (Charles University in Prague)
Philippe Muller (University of Toulouse)
Piotr Pezik (University of Łódź)
Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh)
Ted Sanders (Utrecht University)
Manfred Stede (Potsdam University)
Jacqueline Visconti (University of Genua)
Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh)
Deniz Zeyrek (Middle East Technical University)