Call for Participation

Call for participation: DISRPT 2021 - Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking

In conjunction with CODI 2021, EMNLP 2021 - 10-11 Nov. 2021

This year, we're organizing DISRPT 2021 as a shared task on discourse processing across formalisms, for a variety of languages and genres. It is the second iteration of a cross-formalism shared task on discourse analysis, with three subtasks this year:

  • Task 1: discourse segmentation,

  • Task 2: connective identification

  • Task 3: relation classification.


We will provide training, development and test datasets from all available languages in RST, SDRT, and PDTB, using a uniform format. Because different corpora, languages, and frameworks use different guidelines, the shared task will promote the design of flexible methods for dealing with various guidelines, and will help to push forward the discussion of converging standards for discourse units. For datasets which have treebanks, we will evaluate segmentation in two different scenarios: with and without gold syntax. An automatically parsed version is provided for all corpora without a gold parse.


Shared Task Data and Formats:

Data for the shared task is released via GitHub together with format documentation and tools: https://github.com/disrpt/sharedtask2021


See here for more information about the previous 2019 shared task: https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2019/shared-task


Important dates:

  • March 2021 – Sample data released

  • 7 May 2021 – Train / dev data release

  • 5 July 2021 – Test data release

  • 5 July 2021 - Anonymity period begins

  • 5 August 2021 – Submission of system and paper

  • 6 September 2021 - Notification of acceptance

  • 16 September 2021 - Camera-ready paper due

  • November 11th - CODI-DISRPT


Submission link: https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2021/DISRPT/


Information:

Contact the organizers: disrpt2021@googlegroups.com

Official website: https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/disrpt2021

​​​​​Google group for participants, please join us on: disrpt2021_participants@googlegroups.com


Organization:

  • Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA)

  • Janet Liu (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA)

  • Mikel Iruskieta (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

  • Philippe Muller (IRIT, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France)

  • Chloé Braud (IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse, France)

  • Sonia Badene (Linagora, IRIT, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France)