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CODI, 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse


Gyeongju, Republic of Korea


** Submission deadline: July 25, 2022 **


* Important information: The CODI workshop will be a hybrid workshop following 
COLING’s format. The workshop will take place on October 16-17, 2022. *


 Aims and scope


The last ten years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP 
systems to understand and produce words and sentences. This development has 
created a renewed interest in discourse problems as researchers move towards 
the processing of long-form text and conversations. There is a surge of 
activity in discourse parsing, coherence models, text summarization, corpora 
for discourse level reading comprehension, and discourse related/aided 
representation learning, to name a few. At this juncture, we have organized two 
Workshops on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2020 and at 
EMNLP 2021 to bring together discourse experts and upcoming researchers. These 
workshops have catalyzed the speed and knowledge needed to solve such problems 
and have served as a forum for the discussion of suitable datasets and reliable 
evaluation methods.


The previous workshops on discourse in machine translation (DiscoMT), linking 
lexical, sentential and discourse semantics (LSDSem), discourse structure in 
natural language generation (DSNNLG), discourse parsing and treebanking 
(DISRPT) and coreference (CORBON/CRAC), have shown that there is considerable 
interest and success in bringing together the community working on specific 
problems. We believe that the discourse community will also benefit from a 
general forum where work ranging from corpus development/analysis to 
computational models, and evaluation is discussed, and desiderata can be drawn 
for future progress.


The 3rd CODI workshop is planned as a 1 1/2 day event which brings together 
different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers on 
the first day. The second day will be dedicated to shared tasks and special 
sessions which focus on the issues mentioned above. After a first successful 
iteration in 2021 the shared task on coreference resolution (encompassing 
entity and abstract coreference and bridging anaphora) in dialogue will be held 
again in 2022 as the CODI-CRAC 2022 Shared Task on Anaphora, Bridging, and 
Discourse Deixis in Dialogue, next to the CRAC 2022 Shared Task on Multilingual 
Coreference Resolution.


 


Topics of interest


We welcome symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and 
analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We 
appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, 
including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a 
forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. 


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

 
 * discourse structure  * discourse connectives  * discourse relations  * 
annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena  * corpora annotated with 
discourse phenomena  * discourse parsing  * cross-lingual discourse processing  
* cross-domain discourse processing  * anaphora and coreference resolution  * 
event coreference  * argument mining  * coherence modeling  * discourse and 
semantics  * discourse in applications such as machine translation, 
summarization, etc.  * evaluation methodology for discourse processing  


Submissions 


We solicit four categories of papers: regular workshop papers, demos, shared 
task papers and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop papers, shared task 
papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. 


Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. Long papers may 
consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. 


Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. 


Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may 
consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. 


Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices but the paper 
submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary 
materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review 
them.


Accepted long, short, and demo papers will be presented orally. 


Extended abstracts can describe work in progress or those already published 
elsewhere. These may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts 
are non-archival. They will be presented orally, and included in the workshop 
program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings.


Double submission of papers is allowed but will need to be notified at 
submission. 


Submission website


All submissions must be anonymous and follow the COLING 2022 formatting 
instructions described here: https://coling2022.org/Submission 


Please submit your workshop papers at https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/CODI/ 


Shared task papers should be submitted to the links specified on the shared 
task pages.


 Important dates

 
 * 2022-07-25: CODI papers due * 2022-08-03: Reviewing period * 2022-08-24: 
Reviews due * 2022-09-01: Notification of acceptance * 2022-09-12: Camera ready 
deadline for main conference and CODI * 2022-10-16 – 2022-10-17: CODI 
workshopAll deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").


Invited Speakers 

 
 * Nate Chambers, US Naval Academy * Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh 
Organizers

 
 * Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT * Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen 
and Uppsala University * Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin * Sharid 
Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg * Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for 
Theoretical Studies * Amir Zeldes, Georgetown UniversityTo contact the 
organizers, please send an email to: [email protected]
 
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