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 four Workshops on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2020, EMNLP 2021, COLING 2022 and ACL 2023 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 1 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers.
2023-12-20: CODI papers due
2024-01-17 2024-01-22: Direct submission (papers rejected at a main conference)
2024-01-20: Notification of acceptance
2024-01-30: Camera ready deadline for main conference and CODI
2024-03-21: CODI workshop
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").
Due to the tight schedule, there will be no deadline extension.
To contact the organizers, please send an email to: codi-workshop@googlegroups.com
CODI is sponsored by Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)
News
[20-03] Lunch and dinner: https://forms.gle/Y2fXWem9cwXENJAR8
[02-12] The program is OUT! Authors, please refer to the schedule page for your presentation mode.
[02-02] 🎞️The deadline for submitting a pre-recorded video to Underline is Feb. 18. Please prepare a pre-recorded video of max 10 minutes to the following link: https://eacl2024workshops.paperform.co
[01-26] Notifications for all papers (including direct submissions) have been sent out. Please upload the camera-ready version by Jan. 30 on softconf.
[01-25] CODI also welcomes Finding papers related to discourse @eacl. Pls submit your paper before January 30th (choose the category "finding" at softconf). Notifications will be sent in a few days.
[01-22] Direct submission due. The accepted papers will be communicated ASAP.
[01-20] Paper acceptance announcement released. Congratulations!
[12-21] Reviewer assignment done.
[12-20] Deadline for CODI papers due.