Schedule

Poster sizes: The poster boards can fit A0 sized posters in portrait format.

Workshop Program

March 21, 2024 - Reading (Radison)


(all times: CET)


09:15 - 10:30 Opening session


09:15 - 09:30 Opening remarks


09:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk

Hannah Rohde: Inferences of additional coherence-driven meaning within and across clauses


10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break


11:00 - 12:00 Poster session 1


Discourse Structure Annotations for the Minecraft Dialogue Corpus

Kate Thompson, Julie Hunter and Nicholas Asher


Syntactic Preposing and Discourse Relations

Yunfang Dong, Xixian Liao and Bonnie Webber


Learning Label Embeddings for Mapping Discourse Relations of Different Annotation Frameworks (Extended Abstract)

Yingxue Fu


Actor Identification in Discourse: A Challenge for LLMs?

Ana Barić, Sebastian Padó and Sean Papay


Exploring Soft-Label Training for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition

Nelson Filipe Costa and Leila Kosseim


Projecting Annotations for Discourse Relations: Connective Identification for Low-Resource Languages

Peter Bourgonje and Pin-Jie Lin


Probing of pretrained multilingual models on the knowledge of discourse

Mary Godunova and Ekaterina Voloshina


Complex question generation using discourse-based data augmentation

Khushnur Jahangir, Philippe Muller and Chloé Braud


12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break


13:30 - 14:30 Invited Talk 

Manfred Stede: Connectives and Arguments


14:30 - 15:30 Poster session 2

Zero-shot learning for multilingual discourse relation classification

Eleni Metheniti, Philippe Muller, Chloé Braud and Margarita Hernández Casas


Exploiting Questions Under Discussion for Discourse Relation Recognition in Dialog (Extended Abstract)

Shuhaib Mehri, Chuyuan Li and Giuseppe Carenini


Quantitative metrics to the CARS model in academic discourse in biology introductions

Charles Lam and Nonso Nnamoko


On Measuring Context Utilization in Document-Level MT Systems

Wafaa Mohammed and Vlad Niculae


An Algorithmic Approach to Analyzing Rhetorical Structures

Andrew Potter


SciPara: A New Dataset for Investigating Paragraph Discourse Structure in Scientific Papers

Anna Kiepura, Yingqiang Gao, Jessica Lam, Nianlong Gu and Richard H.r. Hahnloser


The ARRAU 3.0 Corpus

Massimo Poesio, Maris Camilleri, Paloma Carretero Garcia, Juntao Yu and Mark-Christoph Müller 


Discourse Relation Prediction and Discourse Parsing in Dialogues with Minimal Supervision

Chuyuan Li, Chloé Braud, Maxime Amblard and Giuseppe Carenini



15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break


16:00 - 17:30 Oral presentation session


16:00 - 16:15 Using Discourse Connectives to Test Genre Bias in Masked Language Models

Heidrun Dorgeloh, Lea Kawaletz, Simon Stein, Regina Stodden and Stefan Conrad


16:15 - 16:30 Experimenting with Discourse Segmentation of Taiwan Southern Min Spontaneous Speech

Laurent Prévot and Sheng-Fu Wang

   

16:30 - 16:45 Feature-augmented model for multilingual discourse relation classification

Eleni Metheniti, Chloé Braud and Philippe Muller


16:45 - 17:00 Signals as Features: Predicting Error/Success in Rhetorical Structure Parsing

Martial Pastor and Nelleke Oostdijk


17:00 - 17:15 GroundHog: Dialogue Generation using Multi-Grained Linguistic Input

Alexander Chernyavskiy, Lidiia Ostyakova and Dmitry Ilvovsky


17:15 - 17:30 With a Little Help from my (Linguistic) Friends: Topic segmentation of multiparty casual      

                                conversations

Amandine Decker and Maxime Amblard



17:30 - 17:45 Closing Remarks