Schedule

October 16, 2022


(all times: local Korean time)


09:15 - 10:30 Opening session


09:15 - 09:30 Opening remarks


09:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk (Rescheduled to October 17, 9:30, virtual only)

Nate Chambers: Exploring the Role of Commonsense Knowledge in Maintaining Narrative Coherence


10:30 - 11:00 Cofee break


11:00 - 12:30 Morning session


11:00 - 11:10 KOJAK: A New Corpus for Studying German Discourse Particle ja

Adil Soubki, Owen Rambow and Chong Kang


11:10 - 11:20 Discourse Analysis via Questions and Answers: Parsing Dependency Structures of Questions Under Discussion

Wei-Jen Ko, Yating Wu, Dananjay Srinivas, Cutter Dalton, Greg Durrett and Junyi Jessy Li


11:20 - 11:30 Towards Domain-Independent Supervised Discourse Parsing Through Gradient Boosting

Patrick Huber and Giuseppe Carenini


11:30 - 11:45 Improving Topic Segmentation by Injecting Discourse Dependencies

Linzi Xing, Patrick Huber and Giuseppe Carenini


11:45 - 11:55 Evaluating How Users Game and Display Conversation with Human-Like Agents

Won Ik Cho, Soomin Kim, Eujeong Choi and Younghoon Jeong


11:55 - 12:05 Evaluating Discourse Cohesion in Pre-trained Language Models

Jie He, Wanqiu Long and Deyi Xiong


12:05 - 12:15 Easy-First Bottom-Up Discourse Parsing via Sequence Labelling

Andrew Shen, Fajri Koto, Jey Han Lau and Timothy Baldwin


12:15 - 12:30 Open discussion on future CODI workshops and shared tasks


12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break


11:00 - 12:30 Afternoon session 1


14:00 - 14:10 Multi-Party Conversation Generation via Discourse Structure Planning

Alexander Chernyavskiy and Dmitry Ilvovsky


14:10 - 14:20 Explicitation Phenomena and Surprisal Effects in Translation and Interpreting

Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Christina Pollkläsener and Heike Przybyl


14:20 - 14:30 Using Translation Process Data to Explore Explicitation and Implicitation through Discourse Connectives

Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Michael Carl


14:30 - 14:45 Towards Identifying Alternative-Lexicalization Signals of Discourse Relations

René Knaebel and Manfred Stede


14:45 - 14:55 Towards Semi-Supervised Discourse Graph Parsing in Dialogs with Pre-trained Language Models and Linguistic Features

Chuyuan Li, Patrick Huber, Wen Xiao, Maxime Amblard, Chloé Braud and Giuseppe Carenini


14:55 - 15:05 Label distributions help implicit discourse relation classification

Frances Yung, Kaveri Anuranjana, Merel Scholman and Vera Demberg


15:05 - 15:15 Bullshit and Unanswerable QUDs

Oliver Deck


15:15 - 15:30 The Keystone Role Played by Questions in Debate

Zlata Kikteva, Kamila Gorska, Wassiliki Siskou, Annette Hautli-Janisz and Chris Reed


15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 18:00 Afternoon session 2


16:00 - 16:15 Shallow Discourse Parsing for Open Information Extraction and Text Simplification

Christina Niklaus, André Freitas and Siegfried Handschuh


16:15 - 16:25 Predicting Political Orientation in News with Latent Discourse Structure to Improve Bias Understanding

Nicolas Devatine, Philippe Muller and Chloé Braud


16:25 - 16:35 Attention Modulation for Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Dialogue State Tracking

Mathilde Veron, Olivier Galibert, Guillaume Bernard and Sophie Rosset


16:35 - 16:45 An Empirical Study of Topic Transition in Dialogue

Mayank Soni, Brendan Spillane, Leo Muckley, Orla Cooney, Emer Gilmartin, Christian Saam, Benjamin Cowan and Vincent Wade


16:45 - 17:45 Invited Talk

Bonnie Webber: Discourse Relations and Marked Syntax


17:45 - 18:00 Open discussion on future CODI workshops and shared tasks


October 17, 2022


09:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk (Attention NEW TIME, virtual only)

Nate Chambers: Exploring the Role of Commonsense Knowledge in Maintaining Narrative Coherence


14:00 - 15:30 Session 1: Shared Task Competition


14:00 - 14:05 Welcome


14:05 - 14:35 The CODI-CRAC 2022 Shared Task on Anaphora, Bridging, and Discourse Deixis in Dialogue

Juntao Yu, Sopan Khosla, Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Lori Levin, Vincent Ng, Massimo Poesio, Michael Strube and Carolyn Rosé


14:35 - 14:50 Anaphora Resolution in Dialogue: System Description (CODI-CRAC 2022 Shared Task)

Tatiana Anikina, Natalia Skachkova, Joseph Renner and Priyansh Trivedi


14:50 - 15:05 Pipeline Coreference Resolution for Anaphoric Identity in Dialogues

Damrin Kim, Seongsik Park, Mirae Han and Harksoo Kim


15:05 - 15:30 Neural Anaphora Resolution in Dialogue Revisited

Shengjie Li, Hideo Kobayashi and Vincent Ng


15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break


16:00 - 18:00 Session 2: Keynote Session


16:00 - 16:45 Invited Talk: Massimo Poesio and Lori Levin


16:45 - 17:45 Open Discussion


17:45 - 18:00 Closing Remarks