Call for Papers
Call for Papers: CODI 2022 - 3rd workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse
Important information: The CODI workshop organization will be hybrid, following the COLING program.
Note: we accept double submissions with other conferences and workshops, and non-archival submissions. Please refer to the dedicated section below.
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 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) brings together researchers interested in all aspects of discourse and its computational modeling. The first and second CODI workshops were held at EMNLP 2020 ad 2021, and showcased diverse discourse research (see the papers presented, 2020, 2021).
Shared Tasks
This year, the workshop will also host two shared tasks:
Please visit the corresponding websites for more information.
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:
(1) regular workshop papers,
(2) demos,
(3) extended abstracts
and (4) shared tasks papers.
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.
For shared task papers, please refer to the corresponding websites:
CODI-CRAC: CODI-CRAC Anaphora Resolution in Dialogues
Shared task papers will be presented during the dedicated sessions, either orally or as posters. They will be included in the workshop proceedings.
Final versions of all types of papers will be given one additional page of content.
Note that even if extended abstracts are not published in the proceedings, we need information about the authors, so the authors have to submit a non anonymized version of the abstract.
Double submission
We allow for double submissions. Please indicate during submission to which other conference or workshop your work has been submitted. Please send an email to codi-workshop@googlegroups.com to indicate a double submission.
We may also invite authors of papers accepted to the conferences (e.g. EMNLP, ACL, COLING) including Findings to present their work at the workshop. Please indicate whether your paper has been accepted to e.g. ACL during submission, or let us know by email that your paper has been accepted elsewhere (including Findings) upon notification. These papers will not be part of the proceedings of the workshop.
Submission website
All submissions must follow the COLING 2022 formatting instructions described here: https://coling2022.org/Submission
Paper submission website: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/CODI/
Shared task papers should be submitted to the links specified on the shared task pages.
Important dates
2022-06-25: Anonymity period starts
2022-07-252022-07-28: Workshop papers due (long, short, demo, extended abstracts)2022-08-03: Reviewing period
2022-08-24: Reviews due
2022-09-012022-09-05: Notification of acceptance2022-09-122022-09-15: Camera ready deadline for main conference and CODI2022-10-16 – 2022-10-17: CODI workshop
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").
Please check the dedicated websites to get information about the deadlines for the two shared tasks.