Aims and scope
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 problems 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. At this juncture, we have organized two Workshops on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2020 and at EMNLP 2021 to bring together discourse experts and upcoming researchers. These workshops have catalyzed 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 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. 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 3rd CODI workshop is planned as a 1 1/2 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers on the first day. The second day will be dedicated to shared tasks and special sessions which focus on the issues mentioned above. After a first successful iteration in 2021 the shared task on coreference resolution (encompassing entity and abstract coreference and bridging anaphora) in dialogue will be held again in 2022 as the CODI-CRAC 2022 Shared Task on Anaphora, Bridging, and Discourse Deixis in Dialogue, next to the CRAC 2022 Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution.
Topics of interest
We welcome symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- discourse structure
- discourse connectives
- discourse relations
- annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena
- corpora annotated with discourse phenomena
- discourse parsing
- cross-lingual discourse processing
- cross-domain discourse processing
- anaphora and coreference resolution
- event coreference
- argument mining
- coherence modeling
- discourse and semantics
- discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc.
- evaluation methodology for discourse processing
Submissions
We solicit four categories of papers: regular workshop papers, demos, shared task papers and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop papers, shared task papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications.
Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references.
Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references.
Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references.
Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them.
Accepted long, short, and demo papers will be presented orally.
Extended abstracts can describe work in progress or those already published elsewhere. These may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be presented orally, and included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings.
Double submission of papers is allowed but will need to be notified at submission.
Submission website
All submissions must be anonymous and follow the COLING 2022 formatting instructions described here: https://coling2022.org/Submission
Please submit your workshop papers at https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/CODI/
Shared task papers should be submitted to the links specified on the shared task pages.
Important dates
- 2022-07-25: CODI papers due
- 2022-08-03: Reviewing period
- 2022-08-24: Reviews due
- 2022-09-01: Notification of acceptance
- 2022-09-12: Camera ready deadline for main conference and CODI
- 2022-10-16 – 2022-10-17: CODI workshop
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").
Invited Speakers
- Nate Chambers, US Naval Academy
- Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh
Organizers
- Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT
- Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen and Uppsala University
- Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin
- Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg
- Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
- Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University
To contact the organizers, please send an email to: codi-workshop [at] googlegroups.com