[PLing] Second call for papers DiSLiDaS 2023 collocated with LDK2023
Mariana Damova, PhD
mariana.damova at mozajka.co
Thu May 11 11:01:49 CEST 2023
Second call for papers
Workshop _Discourse studies and linguistic data science: Addressing
challenges in interoperability, multilinguality and linguistic data
processing_ - DiSLiDaS 2023
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
12-13 September 2023 (TBA)
Website: http://dislidas.mozajka.co
The fourth biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK
2023) (http://2023.ldk-conf.org) and Cost Action CA18209
_NexusLinguarum_ (https://nexuslinguarum.eu) are glad to announce the
second workshop _Discourse studies and linguistic data science:
Addressing challenges in interoperability, multilinguality and
linguistic data processing_ - DiSLiDaS 2023.
Conference aims and topics
The workshop aims to follow through the topics discussed during DiSLiDaS
2022 (https://dislidas.mozajka.co/?page_id=211) and to gather current
research advances in discourse analysis and representation, in the
context of multilinguality, from a linguistic and computational
perspective. We invite submissions addressing challenges such as
interoperability, linguistic linked open data (LLOD), and language
processing and analysis.
The workshop topics are the following (but not limited to):
* Discourse and dialogue annotation: Parsing and representation across
languages and frameworks
* Discourse markers and discourse relations (RST, PDTB, SDRT):
Identification, prediction and extraction
* Attitudes discovery and interpretation in Discourse: Appraisal and
sentiment
* Effects of multimodality on discourse interpretation: Intonation,
gesture and text
* Interoperability for Multilingual language data: Challenges of rich
and distributed data
* Discourse data and machine learning: Methods and tools
Discourse comprises a wide variety of linguistic phenomena, such as
discourse markers, discourse relations, and speaker attitude, which have
been largely studied by different communities of practice from
Linguistics and Computation, rendering several theoretical frameworks
(for instance, RST, SDRT, PDTB, for discourse relations; appraisal
theory for sentiment analysis,...), and technological approaches, such
as transformer models, embeddings and alike. Nonetheless, there are open
issues concerning interoperability, multilinguality, and language
processing, in particular, the existence of different annotation
schemas, disambiguation, lack of training data for machine learning,
scarcity of effective language phenomena detection and interpretation
methods, diverse vocabularies, insufficient multilingual parallel
corpora of non-dialogue and dialogue, initial stages of exploration of
multimodality.
Discourse research is one of the central research areas of natural
language processing (NLP) too. NLP research focuses on the
formalisation, identification and discovery of semantic phenomena,
dialogue exchange structure, and text coherence. Some of the
technological approaches of NLP include the use of transformer models,
word embeddings, linguistic linked open data, the constitution of
aligned multilingual corpora, vocabularies of language phenomena and
alike. Computational discourse explores the evidence that language
consists not only of placing words in the right order but also of
detecting and interpreting the meaning and deeper textual relations and
organising ideas into a logical flow. The linguistic approaches study
language phenomena referring to coherence and cohesiveness of discourse,
lexical, phrasal, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic means to express
discourse relations, represent their roles and build language resources
for them.
Despite all the advances, there are still plenty of unresolved problems
related to interoperability, multilinguality, and language processing.
With the growth of the Semantic Web and Linguistic Linked Data,
interoperability is key to reading, interpreting and adopting language
resources. The existence of different annotation schemas to encode
discourse relations constitutes a problem for data exchange and reuse
and for theoretical consistency. The treatment of multilinguality is
also complicated because of the insufficiency of multilingual parallel
corpora of collections of non-dialogue and dialogue texts, which would
allow systematic contrastive studies. As to language processing, the
lack of training data for machine learning, coupled with the scarcity of
effective language phenomena detection and interpretation methods, the
coexistence of diverse vocabularies, and the minimal attention to the
contribution of the tone of voice, intonation, gestures to the meaning
and the informative value of discourse elements make the task of
discourse processing still very challenging.
The workshop intends to be a discussion forum for researchers interested
in addressing the aforementioned challenges and advancing the
state-of-art in discourse studies and linguistic data science.
Programme
The Scientific Programme will include one invited talk and oral
presentations.
Invited Speaker
Johan Bos, University of Groningen
Submissions
Submissions can be in the form of:
* long papers: 9-12 pages;
* short papers: 4-6 pages.
All submission lengths are given including references. Accepted
submissions will be published by ACL in an open-access conference
proceedings volume, free of charge for authors. The ACL templates [1]
should therefore be used for all conference submissions. As the
reviewing process is single-blind, submissions should not be anonymised.
The workshop will be hybrid (face-to-face and remote). Note that at
least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the
paper at the workshop (either remotely or on-site). There will be no
registration fee administered for participating in DiSLiDaS 2023.
Submissions must be submitted electronically via _EasyChair_:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dislidas2023
Important dates
Time Zone: Anywhere on Earth
Papers due: May, 19, 2023
Papers acceptance notifications: June, 16, 2023
Camera-ready papers due: June, 30, 2023
Programme Committee
Elena-Simona Apostol, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Harry Bunt, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Maria Josep Cuenca, Universitat de València
Debopam Das, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Jorge Garcia, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Mikel Iruskieta, University of the Basque Country, Spain
António Leal, University of Porto, Portugal
Chaya Liebeskind, Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel
Amália Mendes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Giedre Valunaite Oleskevicienė, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuanian
Georg Rehm, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Ted Sanders, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Merel Scholman, University of Saarland, Germany
Dimitar Trajanov, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, North Macedonia
Radoslava Trnavac, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Ciprian-Octavian Truica, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Amir Zeldes, The Georgetown University, USA
Organising Committee
Purificação Silvano, University of Porto, Portugal
Mariana Damova, Mozaika, Ltd., Bulgaria
Christian Chiarcos, Goethe-Universität, Germany
Anna Bączkowska, University of Gdansk, Poland
Contact
organizers at dislidas.mozajka.co
Mariana Damova, PhD | CEO
company: Mozajka Ltd
email: mariana.damova at mozajka.co
web: mozajka.co [2]
mobile: +359 885 796530 | twitter: @damom7 linkedin:
https://bg.linkedin.com/in/mdphd
Links:
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[1] https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files
[2] http://mozajka.co/
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