CODI, 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse: Final Call for 
Papers

2024-03-21 or 22 - EACL 2024 - Malta

** Submission deadline: December 20th, 2023 - No deadline extension **

Website link: https://sites.google.com/view/codi2024

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 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 
advance research on discourse level 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 5th CODI workshop is planned as a 1 day event which brings together 
different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers. We 
also accept papers accepted at other major conferences for non-archival 
presentation, including Findings papers.

Topics of interest

We welcome papers on 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 three categories of papers: regular (long and short) workshop 
papers, demos and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop papers and demos 
will be included in the proceedings as archival publications.

Double submission of papers is allowed but will need to be indicated at 
submission.

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.

Extended abstracts can describe work in progress. These may be two pages long 
(without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be 
included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the 
workshop proceedings.

Paper accepted or rejected at one of the main conferences

We also invite presentations of paper accepted at another main conference, a 
specific deadline and submission process will be communicated later on. They 
will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in 
the workshop proceedings.

We will also consider for publication papers rejected at one of the main 
conferences (see the direct submission deadline below), authors will have to 
submit both the paper and the reviews. The submission process will be 
communicated later on.

Submission website

All submissions must be anonymous and follow the EACL 2024 formatting 
instructions described here: 

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https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp

Please submit your workshop papers at https://softconf.com/eacl2024/CODI-2024/

Important dates

2023-12-20: CODI papers due
2024-01-17: 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
2024-03-17 – 2024-03-22: CODI workshop
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").
Due to the tight schedule, there will be no deadline extension.

Invited Speakers

- Hannah Rohde, University of Edinburgh
- Manfred Stede, Potsdam University

Organizers

Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT
Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen
Chuyuan (Lisa) Li, � University of British Columbia
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-works...@googlegroups.com <mailto:codi-works...@googlegroups.com> 

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