Schedule

DISRPT2019 2019: Program

Thursday, June 6, 2019

09:00 - 09:15 Opening remarks: Amir Zeldes

09:15 - 10:15 Invited Talk: "Discourse (2009--2019): Recent successes, future challenges" Bonnie Webber

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00 1st session: Debopam Das (chair)

10:30 - 11:00 Toward Cross-theory Discourse Relation Annotation. Peter Bourgonje and Olha Zolotarenko. Potsdam University

11:00 - 11:30 Acquiring Annotated Data with Cross-lingual Explicitation for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification. Wei Shi, Frances Yung, Vera Demberg. Saarland University

11:30 - 12:00 From News to Medical: Cross-domain Discourse Segmentation. Elisa Ferracane, Titan Page, Junyi Jessy Li, Katrin Erk. University of Texas at Austin, University of Colorado Boulder.

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 15:00 2nd session: Mikel Iruskieta (chair)

13:30 - 14:00 Nuclearity in RST and signals of coherence relations. Debopam Das. Humboldt University of Berlin

14:00 - 14:30 The Rhetorical Structure of Attribution. Andrew Potter. University of North Alabama

14:30 - 15:00 Annotating Shallow Discourse Relations in Twitter Conversations. Tatjana Scheffler, Berfin Aktaş, Debopam Das, Manfred Stede. University of Potsdam, Humboldt University of Berlin

15:00 - 16:00 Poster sesion:

15:00 - 16:00 A Discourse Signal Annotation System for RST Trees. Luke Gessler, Yang Liu, Amir Zeldes. Georgetown University

15:00 - 16:00 EusDisParser: improving an under-resourced discourse parser with cross-lingual data. Mikel Iruskieta and Chloé Braud. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), LORIA - CNRS.

15:00 - 16:00 Beyond The Wall Street Journal: Anchoring and Comparing Discourse Signals across Genres. Yang Liu. Georgetown University

15:00 - 16:00 Towards the Data-driven System for Rhetorical Parsing of Russian Texts. Artem Shelmanov, Dina Pisarevskaya, Elena Chistova, Svetlana Toldova, Maria Kobozeva, Ivan Smirnov. Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Institute for Systems Analysis FRC CSC RAS, Institute for Systems Analysis, Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of Russian Academy of Sciences

15:00 - 16:00 RST-Tace A tool for automatic comparison and evaluation of RST trees. Shujun Wan, Tino Kutschbach, Anke Lüdeling, Manfred Stede. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Independent Researcher, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Potsdam

15:00 - 16:00 Shared Task poster sesion: Report of the shared task

15:00 - 16:00 Multi-lingual and Cross-genre Discourse Unit Segmentation. Peter Bourgonje and Robin Schäfer. Potsdam University

15:00 - 16:00 ToNy: Contextual embeddings for accurate multilingual discourse segmentation of full documents. Philippe Muller, Chloé Braud, Mathieu Morey. IRIT, Toulouse University, LORIA - CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse

15:00 - 16:00 Multilingual segmentation based on neural networks and pre-trained word embeddings. Mikel Iruskieta, Kepa Bengoetxea, Aitziber Atutxa Salazar, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

15:00 - 16:00 GumDrop at the DISRPT2019 Shared Task: A Model Stacking Approach to Discourse Unit Segmentation and Connective Detection. Yue Yu, Yilun Zhu, Yang Liu, Yan Liu, Siyao Peng, Mackenzie Gong, Amir Zeldes. Georgetown University

10:30 - 11:00 3rd session: Yang Liu (chair)

16:00 - 16:30 Towards discourse annotation and sentiment analysis of the Basque Opinion Corpus. Jon Alkorta, Koldo Gojenola, Mikel Iruskieta. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

16:30 - 17:00 Using Rhetorical Structure Theory to Assess Discourse Coherence for Non-native Spontaneous Speech. Xinhao Wang, Binod Gyawali, James V. Bruno, Hillary R. Molloy, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner. Educational Testing Service

17:00 - 17:30 Applying Rhetorical Structure Theory to Student Essays for Providing Automated Writing Feedback. Shiyan Jiang, Kexin Yang, Chandrakumari Suvarna, Pooja Casula, Mingtong Zhang, Carolyn Rose. Carnegie Mellon University

17:30 - 18:00 Open meeting: Debopam Das and Mikel Iruskieta

18:00 - 18:15 Closing remarks. Amir Zeldes