Objectives:
The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum where work on all aspects of computational work on anaphora resolution and annotation, including both coreference and types of anaphora such as bridging references resolution and discourse deixis, can be presented.
Topics:
The workshop will welcome submissions describing both theoretical and applied computational work on anaphora/coreference resolution, including on languages other than English, and less-researched types of anaphora such as bridging references. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Coreference resolution for less-researched languages
- Annotation and interpretation of anaphoric relations, including relations other than identity coreference (e.g., bridging references, reference to abstract entities)
- Investigation of difficult cases of anaphora / coreference and their resolution (e.g., zero anaphora, ellipsis, event coreference)
- Anaphora / coreference resolution in noisy data (e.g. in speech, social media)
- Use of anaphora / coreference resolution for discourse processing
- Annotation tools and scheme for anaphora / coreference resolution
- Cross-lingual anaphora / coreference resolution
- Cross-domain anaphora / coreference resolution
- Applications of anaphora / coreference resolution (e.g., summarization, machine translation)
- Evaluation methodology for anaphora /coreference resolution
Paper Categories:
CRAC 2021 has the goal of a broad technical program. Thus, we welcome papers in the following categories:
- Research papers (theoretical computational linguistics, empirical/data-driven approaches , paradigms/techniques/strategies, analysis papers, resources and evaluation, negative result)
- Survey papers (surveys a popular or emerging area of anaphora / coreference resolution)
- Position papers (presents one side of an arguable opinion about an issue)
- Challenge papers (a challenge to the field in terms of setting out a goal for the next 5/10/20 years)
- Demo papers (systems, tools, visualizations)
- Extended abstracts (describes work in progress)
Research papers, survey papers, position papers, and challenge papers can have up to 8 pages of content for long papers and up to 4 pages of content for short papers, plus an unlimited number of pages for references. Demo papers can have up to 4 pages of content plus an unlimited number of pages for references. Extended abstracts can have up to 2 pages of content plus an unlimited number of pages for references.
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Important Dates:
Workshop papers due: Aug 5, 2021
Notification of acceptance: Sep 5, 2021
Camera-ready papers due: Sep 15, 2021
Workshop date: Nov 11, 2021
Submission:
Details of the workshop, including the submission link can be found in the CRAC 2021 website (https://sites.google.com/view/crac2021).