Schedule
Important dates
The workshop will take place during ACL 2023 - July 9-14, 2023.
Anonymity period starts: March 24th, 2023
Workshop Papers Due (long, short, demo, extended abstracts): April 24th, 2023 May 3rd, 2023
Notification of Acceptance: May 22, 2023 May 29, 2023
Camera-ready papers due + Findings ACL/EACL submission: June 6, 2023
Workshop Date: July 13-14, 2023
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”).
Workshop Program
July 13, 2023
(all times: local Canadian time)
09:15 - 10:30 Opening session
09:15 - 09:30 Opening remarks
09:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk
Yufang Hou: Bridging Resolution: A Journey Towards Modelling Referential Discourse Entities
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Morning session
11:00 - 11:20 Contrastive Hierarchical Discourse Graph for Scientific Document Summarization
Haopeng Zhang, Xiao Liu and Jiawei Zhang
11:20 - 11:40 Entity-based SpanCopy for Abstractive Summarization to Improve the Factual Consistency
Wen Xiao and Giuseppe Carenini
11:40 - 12:00 Two-step Text Summarization for Long-form Biographical Narrative Genre
Avi Bleiweiss
12:00 - 12:20 Improving Long Context Document-Level Machine Translation
Christian Herold and Hermann Ney
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Afternoon session 1
14:00 - 14:20 Ensemble Transfer Learning for Multilingual Coreference Resolution
Tuan Lai and Heng Ji
14:20 - 14:35 Entity Coreference and Co-occurrence Aware Argument Mining from Biomedical Literature
Boyang Liu, Viktor Schlegel, Riza Batista-Navarro and Sophia Ananiadou
14:35 - 14:50 Leveraging Structural Discourse Information for Event Coreference Resolution in Dutch
Loic De Langhe, Orphee De Clercq and Veronique Hoste
14:50 - 15:10 Unpacking Ambiguous Structure: A Dataset for Ambiguous Implicit Discourse Relations for English and Egyptian Arabic
Ahmed Ruby, Sara Stymne and Christian Hardmeier
15:10 - 15:30 Embedding Mental Health Discourse for Community Recommendation
Hy Dang, Bang Nguyen, Noah Ziems and Meng Jiang
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:05 Afternoon session 2
16:00 - 16:20 Encoding Discourse Structure: Comparison of RST and QUD
Sara Shahmohammadi, Hannah Seemann, Manfred Stede and Tatjana Scheffler
16:20 - 16:35 APA-RST: A Text Simplification Corpus with RST Annotations
Freya Hewett
16:35 - 16:50 Discourse Information for Document-Level Temporal Dependency Parsing
Jingcheng Niu, Victoria Ng, Erin E. Rees, Simon de Montigny and Gerald Penn
16:50 - 17:05 SAE-NTM: Sentence-Aware Encoder for Neural Topic Modeling
Hao Liu, Jingsheng Gao, Suncheng Xiang, Ting Liu and yuzhuo fu
17:05 - 18:00 Open discussion on future CODI workshops and shared tasks
July 14, 2023
09:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk
Giuseppe Carenini: Discourse Processing in the era of Large Language Models
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Morning session: DISRPT shared task
11:00 - 11:15 Opening remarks
The DISRPT 2023 Shared Task on Elementary Discourse Unit Segmentation, connective Detection, and Relation Classification
Chloé Braud, Yang Janet Liu, Eleni Metheniti, Philippe Muller, Laura Rivière, Attapol Rutherford and Amir Zeldes
11:15 - 11:35 DiscoFlan: instruction Fine-tuning and Refined Text Generation for Discourse Relation Label Classification (DISRPT 2023 Shared Task)
Kaveri Anuranjana
11:35 - 11:55 DisCut and DiscReT: MELODI at DISRPT 2023 (DISRPT 2023 Shared Task)
Eleni Metheniti, Chloé Braud, Philippe Muller and Laura Rivière
11:55 - 12:15 HITS at DISRPT 2023: Discourse Segmentation, Connective Detection, and Relation Classification (DISRPT 2023 Shared Task)
Wei Lu, Yi Fan and Michael Strube
12:15 - 12:30 Discussion of future shared tasks
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:20 Afternoon session 1
14:00 - 14:20 MuLMS-AZ: An Argumentative Zoning Dataset for the Materials Science Domain
Timo Schrader, Teresa Bürkle, Sophie Henning, Sherry Tan, Matteo Finco, Stefan Grünewald, Maira Indrikova, Felix Hildebrand and Annemarie Friedrich
14:20 - 14:35 A Side-by-side Comparison of Transformers for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification
Bruce W. Lee, Bongseok Yang and Jason Lee
14:35 - 14:50 A Weakly-Supervised Learning Approach to the Identification of Alternative Lexicalizations in Shallow Discourse Parsing
René Knaebel
14:50 - 15:05 Exploiting Knowledge about Discourse Relations for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification
Nobel Jacob Varghese, Frances Yung, Kaveri Anuranjana and Vera Demberg
15:05 - 15:20 The distribution of discourse relations in spontaneous conversation
S. Magalí López Cortez and Cassandra L. Jacobs
15:20 - 17:00 Posters (ACL/Findings/Extended abstracts) and Coffee
Chinese-DiMLex: A Lexicon of Chinese Discourse Connectives
Shujun Wan, Peter Bourgonje, Hongling Xiao, Clara Wan Ching Ho, and Manfred Stede
Context-Aware Document Simplification
Liam Cripwell, Joël Legrand and Claire Gardent
An Email Dataset for Analyzing Large-Group Decision-Making
Mladen Karan, Prashant Khare, Ravi Shekhar, Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, Ignacio Castro, Gareth Tyson, Patrick Healey and Matthew Purver
Discourse Structure Extraction from Pre-Trained and Fine-Tuned Language Models in Dialogues
Chuyuan Li, Patrick Huber, Wen Xiao, Maxime Amblard, Chloe Braud and Giuseppe Carenini
An Integrated Approach for Political Bias Prediction and Explanation Based on Discursive Structure
Nicolas Devatine, Philippe Muller and Chloe Braud
GUMSum: Multi-Genre Data and Evaluation for English
Yang Janet Liu and Amir Zeldes
Imagination is All You Need! Curved Contrastive Learning for Abstract Sequence Modeling Utilized on Long Short-Term Dialogue Planning
Justus-Jonas Erker
Discourse Analysis via Questions and Answers: Parsing Dependency Structures of Questions Under Discussion
Wei-Jen Ko, Yating Wu, Cutter Dalton, Dananjay Srinivas, Greg Durrett and Junyi Jessy Li
2*n is better than n^2: Decomposing Event Coreference Resolution into Two Tractable Problems
Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed, Abhijnan Nath, James H. Martin and Nikhil Krishnaswamy
Replicate and Compare with Humans: LLMs Represent Partial Semantic Knowledge in Pronoun Interpretation
Suet-Ying Lam, Qingcheng Zeng, Kexun Zhang, Chenyu You and Rob Voigt
SWiPE: A Dataset for Document-Level Simplification of Wikipedia Pages
Philippe Laban, Jesse Vig, Wojciech Kryscinski, Shafiq Joty, Caiming Xiong and Chien-Sheng Wu