Joint Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) and Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC)

The last few years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP systems and Large Language Models to understand and produce words, sentences and in some cases longer texts. This development has created a renewed interest in discourse problems as researchers move towards the processing of long-form documents and conversations. There is a surge of activity in discourse pretraining tasks, coherence models, LLM reasoning, summarization for long texts and conversations, corpora for discourse level reading comprehension and formal parsing, as well as discourse related/aided representation learning, to name a few.

In light of these developments, uniting efforts across complementary research areas has become more critical than ever.

This year marks the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop. The CODI workshop has provided a platform for a broad range of research at the discourse level, while the CRAC workshop has been a primary venue for exploring computational modeling of reference, anaphora, and coreference. By coming together, CODI-CRAC aim to advance discourse-level research further, fostering discussions on the development of suitable datasets and robust evaluation methods.

The first joint CODI-CRAC workshop is planned as a one day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks, regular papers, and two shared tasks. For more information on the shared task:

• DISRPT 2025: https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2025/

• Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac25

Important dates

• 2025-07-30: CODI-CRAC papers due

• 2025-09-05: Notification of acceptance

• 2025-09-19: Camera ready deadline

• 2025-11-8/9: CODI-CRAC workshop

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

Due to the tight schedule, there will be no deadline extension.

Contact

To contact the organizers, please send an email to: codi-crac-workshop@googlegroups.com

CODI is sponsored by Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)