Call for Papers

Call for Papers: CODI 2023 - 4th workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse

Held in conjunction with ACL 2023, Toronto Canada

Note: we accept double submissions with other conferences and workshops, and non-archival submissions. Please refer to the dedicated section below.

Note: we accept papers accepted at ACL / EACL Findings, see the procedure 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 phenomena 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, but the problems in computational approaches to discourse are still substantial. At this juncture, we have organized three Workshops on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2020, EMNLP 2021 and COLING 2022 to bring together discourse experts and upcoming researchers. These workshops have catalyzed work to improve 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 relation 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 in discourse. 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 4th CODI workshop is planned as a 2 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers on the first day. The second day will be dedicated to shared tasks and special sessions which focus on the issues mentioned above. 


The first and second CODI workshops were held at EMNLP 2020, 2021, 2022, and showcased diverse discourse research (see the papers presented, 2020, 2021, 2022). 

 

Shared Tasks

This year, the workshop will also host one shared task:


After a first successful iteration in 2019 and 2021 the shared task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT) will be held again in 2023, with three tasks: discourse segmentation, discourse connective identification and discourse relation classification, including new datasets and languages.


Please visit the corresponding website 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:

Submissions

We solicit four categories of 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. Similar to *ACL submissions, Limitations and Ethical Considerations sections do not count towards the page limit.


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.


Papers accepted at ACL / EACL Findings 2023:  If your work is relevant to discourse, and if you would like to present at CODI in Toronto this July, please submit your paper (in full) as an extended abstract at https://www.softconf.com/acl2023/CODI2023 as a *non-archival extended abstract*, and make a note that this is a Findings paper in the abstract window during submission. Feel free to also send us an email with your submission number. There will be no reviewing. 


For shared task papers, please refer to the corresponding website:


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 ACL 2023 formatting instructions described here: https://2023.aclweb.org/

Paper submission website: https://www.softconf.com/acl2023/CODI2023 


Shared task papers should be submitted to the links specified on the shared task pages.

Important dates

All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").

Please check the dedicated website to get information about the deadlines for the shared task.