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, Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen and Uppsala University, chrha@itu.dk. 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 2019-2021, CODI 2020/2021) and shared tasks (DiscoMT 2015, WMT 2016, DiscoMT 2017) and served as area chair at ACL 2019, 2020 and NAACL 2021.

Junyi Jessy Li, Assistant Professor in the Linguistics department at the University of Texas at Austin, jessy@austin.utexas.edu. Her interests are in discourse processing (e.g., discourse relations and text specificity), language generation (especially discourse phenomena in generation), as well as computational sociolinguistics. She will be a program co-chair for SIGDIAL 2022, and has served as senior area chair for Discourse and Pragmatics at ACL 2022 and NAACL 2021, and area chair at ACL 2021, 2020, EMNLP 2020, *SEM 2020, and NAACL 2018.

Sharid Loáiciga, Researcher in Computational Linguistics and Associate Director of CLASP, University of Gothenburg, sharid.loaiciga@gu.se. She works in discourse processing with a special interest in anaphoric phenomena. Applications in which her work has focused include machine translation, corpora annotation, and probing and interpretability of pre-trained language models. She coordinated the shared task for DiscoMT 2017 and co-organized DiscoMT 2019.

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 2019-2021. 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, especially in areas of discourse including discourse relations and coreference. He also runs the Georgetown University Corpus Linguistics lab, Corpling@GU, which builds GUM, a class-sourced, multilayer corpus of twelve English Web genres, richly annotated with syntax trees, discourse parses in Rhetorical Structure Theory, coreference and bridging resolution. He is also the author of collaborative annotation tools for online discourse annotation, and a co-organizer of the 2019 and 2021 shared tasks on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT).