Subject: coling-acl 98 workshop " discourse relations and discourse markers "

coling-acl 98 workshop " discourse relations and discourse markers " august 15 , 1998 opening 9 . 00 session 1 : discourse structure parsing uses introduction daniel marcu ( usc / isi ) a surface-based approach to identifying discourse markers and elementary textual units in unrestricted texts 9 . 10 - 9 . 30 simon h . corston - oliver ( microsoft research ) identifying the linguistic correlates of rhetorical relations 9 . 30 - 9 . 50 j . burstein , k . kukich , s . wolff , c . lu , m . chodorow ( educational testing service and hunter college ) enriching automated essay scoring using discourse marking 9 . 50 - 10 . 10 discussion 10 . 10 - 10 . 25 coffee break session 2 : cue words introduction 10 . 40 b . grote ( otto - von - guericke universitt magdeburg ) representing temporal discourse markers for generation purposes 10 . 45 - 11 . 05 l . degand ( university of louvain ) on classifying connectives and coherence relations 11 . 05 - 11 . 25 c . soria , g . ferrari ( university of pisa and university of east piemonte ) lexical marking of discourse relations - some experimental findings 11 . 25 - 11 . 45 s . teufel ( university of edinburgh ) meta - discourse markers and problem-structuring in scientific texts 11 . 45 - 12 . 05 discussion 12 . 05 - 12 . 20 lunch poster session : 13 . 00 - 14 . 00 l . danlos ( universite paris ) linguistic ways for expressing a discourse relation and lexicalized text generation system a . knott ( university of edinburgh ) similarity and contrast relations and inductive rules f . schilder ( universitt hamburg ) temporal discourse markers and the flow of events n . ward ( university of tokyo ) some exotic discourse markers of spoken dialogue session 3 : grammar , semantics , and formalism introduction 14 . 00 b . webber , a . joshi ( university of pennsylvania ) anchoring a lexicalized tree - adjoin grammar for discourse 14 . 05 - 14 . 25 j . jayez , c . rossari ( ehess and universite de geneve ) discourse relations versus discourse marker relations 14 . 25 - 14 . 45 m . pery - woodley ( universite de toulouse ) textual signalling in written text : a corpus-based approach 14 . 45 - 15 . 05 k . dahlgren ( inquizit technologies , inc . ) lexical marking and the recovery of discourse structure 15 . 05 - 15 . 25 discussion 15 . 25 - 15 . 40 break session 4 : speech and dialogue introduction 16 . 00 m . kawamori , t . kawabata , a . shimazu ( ntt research and jaist ) discourse markers in spontaneous dialogue : a corpus based study of japanese and english 16 . 05 - 16 . 25 y . nakano , t . kato ( ntt labs ) cue phrase selection in instruction dialogue using machine learning 16 . 25 - 16 . 45 k . fischer , h . brandt - pook ( universitt bielefeld ) automatic disambiguation of discourse particles 16 . 45 - 17 . 05 d . jurafsky , e . shriberg , b . fox , t . curl ( university of colorado and sri ) lexical , prosodic , and syntactic cues for dialog acts 17 . 05 - 17 . 25 discussion 17 . 25 - 17 . 55 closing - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - eduard hovy email : hovy @ isi . edu usc information sciences institute tel : 310-822 - 1511 ext 731 4676 admiralty way fax : 310-823 - 6714 marina del rey , ca 90292-6695 project homepage : http : / / www . isi . edu / natural-language / nlp-at - isi . html
