Workshop organizers

Chloé Braud, Researcher at CNRS - IRIT (Toulouse, France), chloe.braud@irit.fr. Her work focuses on discourse parsing, with a specific interest on weakly supervised settings, and cross-lingual and cross-domain learning. She was co-chair for the workshop WiNLP 2017, App chair for EMNLP 2017 and organized the French NLP conference JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020.

Christian Hardmeier, Senior Researcher at the University of Edinburgh and Uppsala University, christian.hardmeier@lingfil.uu.se. Christian Hardmeier studies the use, interpretation and translation of referring expressions such as pronouns across languages with a view, on the one hand, to improving machine translation and, on the other hand, to improving automatic discourse processing by exploiting multilingual data. He has organised several workshops at ACL/EMNLP (DiscoMT 2015, S2MT 2015, GeBNLP 2019, DiscoMT 2019, GeBNLP 2019, 2020, CODI 2020) and shared tasks (DiscoMT 2015, WMT 2016, DiscoMT 2017) and served as area chair at ACL 2019 and 2020.

Jessy Li, Assistant Professor in the Linguistics department at the University of Texas at Austin, jessy@austin.utexas.edu. Her interests are in computational discourse and pragmatics, as well as social implications of language use. She also develops NLP techniques under domain shift. She is a board member of SIGDIAL, and was an area co-chair for Discourse and Pragmatics at ACL 2020, EMNLP 2020, *SEM 2020, and NAACL 2018.

Annie Louis, Research Scientist at Google Research (London). She develops computational models of discourse and pragmatics and uses them to aid different applications. She is particularly interested in models which can learn from minimal annotation, and can be transferred across domains. She is currently on the advisory board of SIGDIAL, and was the program co-chair for the SIGDIAL conference in 2017. She was co-chair for the LSDSem workshops at EMNLP 2015 and EACL 2017, and also the Uphill Battles in NLP workshop at EMNLP 2016. She is also an associate editor for the TACL journal.

Michael Strube, NLP Group Leader at Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (Heidelberg, Germany), michael.strube@h-its.org. Michael Strube is interested in questions related to processing, understanding and generating discourse. He works on coreference resolution with a particular focus on appropriate representations for the task. He develops models of local coherence based on graphs and/or neural networks with applications in text generation, assessing readability, essay scoring and automatic summarization. He was PC co-chair for ACL-IJCNLP 2015, PC and general co-chair for SIGdial 2004 and 2013, PC co-chair for the two ACL workshops on ethics in NLP in 2017 and 2018, area and senior chair for numerous *ACL conferences, tutorial co-chair for ACL 2012, IJCNLP 2017, NAACL 2019, workshop co-chair for ACL 2021, and associate editor for the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. He was named ACL Fellow in 2019.

Amir Zeldes, Associate Professor, Georgetown University (Washington, US), Amir.Zeldes@georgetown.edu. He is a computational linguist specializing in work on and with corpora, including corpus linguistics studies, building corpora, and creating annotation interfaces and NLP tools that make corpus creation easier. He also runs the Georgetown University Corpus Linguistics lab, Corpling@GU, which builds GUM, a class-sourced, multilayer corpus of eight English Web genres, richly annotated with syntax trees, discourse parses in Rhetorical Structure Theory and coreference resolution. He is also the author of collaborative annotation tools for online discourse annotation, and a co-organizer of the 2019 workshop on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT).