Workshop date: 20 November, 2020
Link to the virtual EMNLP website: The links to the Zoom sessions are in the schedule
Link to the rocket chat: Join the discussion!
Proceedings are available: Read the papers
Informal meetings: join us in Gather room K
Note that the sessions are QA only with 1-minute madness to present the papers: please watch the pre-recorded videos on EMNLP website before the workshop! They are already available on the virtual platform, you can access them using the login information you received by email.
Detailed schedule: Time Zone UTC
| Day | Time Zone: UTC | Session | Chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-11-20 | 2:00-2:10pm | Opening remarks | ||
| 2020-11-20 | 2:10-3:00pm | Discussion on next year workshop and SIG | ||
| 2020-11-20 | 3:00-4:00pm | Keynote talk: Eunsol Choi, Learning to Understand Language in Context | ||
| 2020-11-20 | 4:00-4:15pm | break | ||
| 4:15-4:45pm | Session 1: QA | |||
| Anaphora and coreference - part 1 | Michael Strube | |||
| Exploring Span Representations in Neural Coreference Resolution, Patrick Kahardipraja, Olena Vyshnevska and Sharid Loáiciga | ||||
| Using Type Information to Improve Entity Coreference Resolution, Sopan Khosla and Carolyn Rose | ||||
| Eliminating Mention Overlaps: Evaluation of Coreference Resolution Systems Under Adversarial Attacks, Haixia Chai, Wei Zhao, Steffen Eger and Michael Strube | ||||
| COLING Free the Plural: Unrestricted Split-Antecedent Anaphora Resolution, Juntao Yu, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Silviu Paun and Massimo Poesio | ||||
| Coherence relations, discourse parsing and corpora - part 1 | Chloé Braud and Annie Louis | |||
| Coreference for Discourse Parsing: A Neural Approach, Grigorii Guz and Giuseppe Carenini | ||||
| Analyzing Neural Discourse Coherence Models, Youmna Farag, Josef Valvoda, Helen Yannakoudakis and Ted Briscoe | ||||
| DSNDM: Deep Siamese Neural Discourse Model with Attention for Text Pairs Categorization and Ranking, Alexander Chernyavskiy and Dmitry Ilvovsky | ||||
| Unsupervised Inference of Data-Driven Discourse Structures using a Tree Auto-Encoder, Patrick Huber and Giuseppe Carenin | ||||
| Discourse and dialog - part 1 | Christian Hardmeier and Jessy Li | |||
| Joint Modeling of Arguments for Event Understanding, Yunmo Chen, Tongfei Chen and Benjamin Van Durme | ||||
| Beyond Adjacency Pairs: Extracting Longer Regularities in Human-Machine Dialogues, Maitreyee Maitreyee | ||||
| FINDINGS Converting the Point of View of Messages Spoken to Virtual Assistants, Isabelle G. Lee, Vera Zu, Sai Srujana Buddi, Dennis Liang, Purva Kulkarni, Jack G.M. Fitzgerald | ||||
| FINDINGS Dialogue Generation on Infrequent Sentence Functions via Structured Meta-Learning, Yifan Gao, Piji Li, Wei Bi, Xiaojiang Liu, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King | ||||
| FINDINGS Composed Variational Natural Language Generation for Few-shot Intents, Congying Xia, Caiming Xiong, Philip Yu, Richard Socher | ||||
| FINDINGS A Hierarchical Network for Abstractive Meeting Summarization with Cross-Domain Pretraining, Chenguang Zhu, Ruochen Xu, Michael Zeng, Xuedong Huang | ||||
| 2020-11-20 | 4:45-6:15pm | Breakout Session + Lunch | ||
| 2020-11-20 | 6:15-7:15pm | Keynote talk: Eduard Hovy, Discourse processing in the time of DNNs | ||
| 2020-11-20 | 7:15-7:45pm | Session 2: QA | ||
| Anaphora and coreference - part 2 | ||||
| Exploring Coreference Features in Heterogeneous Data with Text Classification, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Kerstin Kunz | Michael Strube | |||
| COLING Multitask Learning-Based Neural Bridging Reference Resolution, Juntao Yu and Massimo Poesio | ||||
| FINDINGS Paraphrasing vs Coreferring: Two Sides of the Same Coin Yehudit Meged | ||||
| FINDINGS Adapting Coreference Resolution to Twitter Conversations Berfin AktaÅŸ | ||||
| Coherence relations, discourse parsing and corpora - part 2 | Chloé Braud | |||
| TED-MDB Lexicons: TrEnConnLex, PtEnConnLex, Murathan Kurfalı, Sibel Ozer, Deniz Zeyrek and Amália Mendes | ||||
| Large Discourse Treebanks from Scalable Distant Supervision, Patrick Huber and Giuseppe Carenini | ||||
| Contextualized Embeddings for Connective Disambiguation in Shallow Discourse Parsing, René Knaebel and Manfred Stede | ||||
| Extending Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition to the PDTB-3, Li Liang, Zheng Zhao and Bonnie Webber | ||||
| Discourse and language understanding | Christian Hardmeier and Annie Louis | |||
| Discourse for Argument Mining, and Argument Mining as Discourse, Diane Litman | ||||
| Do sentence embeddings capture discourse properties of sentences from Scientific Abstracts?, Laurine Huber, Chaker Memmadi, Mathilde Dargnat and Yannick Toussaint | ||||
| How does discourse affect Spanish-Chinese Translation? A case study based on a Spanish-Chinese parallel corpus, Shuyuan Cao | ||||
| FINDINGS Social Commonsense Reasoning with Multi-Head Knowledge Attention, Debjit Paul, Anette Frank | ||||
| FINDINGS Thinking Like a Skeptic: Defeasible Inference in Natural Language, Rachel Rudinger, Vered Shwartz, Jena D. Hwang, Chandra Bhagavatula, Maxwell Forbes, Ronan Le Bras, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi | ||||
| Generation and applications | Jessy Li | |||
| Computational Interpretation of Recency for the Choice of Referring Expressions in Discourse, Fahime Same and Kees van Deemter | ||||
| Do We Really Need Thrs In Transformer For Extractive Summarization? Discourse Can Help!, Wen Xiao, Patrick Huber and Giuseppe Carenini | ||||
| Supporting Comedy Writers: Predicting Audience’s Response from Sketch Comedy and Crosstalk Scripts, Maolin Li | ||||
| Exploring aspects of similarity between spoken personal narratives by disentangling them into narrative clause types, Belen Saldias and Deb Roy | ||||
| 2020-11-20 | 7:45-8:30pm | Discussion and closing remarks |
Schedule of the workshop: Time Zone UTC
| Session Name | ||
|---|---|---|
| Opening remarks | 2:00 - | 2:10 PM |
| Discussion on next year workshop and SIG | 2:10 - | 3:00 PM |
| Keynote talk: Eunsol Choi | 3:00 - | 4:00 PM |
| break | 4:00 - | 4:15 PM |
| Session 1: QA | 4:15 - | 4:45 PM |
| Breakout Session + Lunch | 4:45 - | 6:15 PM |
| Keynote talk: Eduard Hovy | 6:15 - | 7:15 PM |
| Session 2: QA | 7:15 - | 7:45 PM |
| Discussion and closing remarks | 7:45 - | 8:30 PM |
Schedule of the workshop: Time Zone UTC -6 - US Chicago AM
| Session Name | ||
|---|---|---|
| Opening remarks | 8:00 - | 8:10 AM |
| Discussion on next year workshop and SIG | 8:10 - | 9:00 AM |
| Keynote talk: Eunsol Choi | 9:00 - | 10:00 AM |
| break | 10:00 - | 10:15 AM |
| Session 1: QA | 10:15 - | 10:45 AM |
| Breakout Session + Lunch | 10:45 - | 12:15 AM |
| Keynote talk: Eduard Hovy | 12:15 - | 1:15 PM |
| Session 2: QA | 1:15 - | 1:45 PM |
| Discussion and closing remarks | 1:45 - | 2:30 PM |
Schedule of the workshop: Time Zone UTC+1 - Europe Paris
| Session Name | ||
|---|---|---|
| Opening remarks | 3:00 - | 3:10 PM |
| Discussion on next year workshop and SIG | 3:10 - | 4:00 PM |
| Keynote talk: Eunsol Choi | 4:00 - | 5:00 PM |
| break | 5:00 - | 5:15 PM |
| Session 1: QA | 5:15 - | 5:45 PM |
| Breakout Session + Lunch | 5:45 - | 7:15 PM |
| Keynote talk: Eduard Hovy | 7:15 - | 8:15 PM |
| Session 2: QA | 8:15 - | 8:45 PM |
| Discussion and closing remarks | 8:45 - | 9:30 PM |
Schedule of the workshop: Time Zone UTC +8 - Asia Beijing
| Session Name | ||
|---|---|---|
| Opening remarks | 10:00 - | 10:10 PM |
| Discussion on next year workshop and SIG | 10:10 - | 11:00 PM |
| Keynote talk: Eunsol Choi | 11:00 - | 12:00 PM |
| break | 12:00 - | 12:15 PM |
| Session 1: QA | 12:15 - | 12:45 PM |
| Breakout Session + Lunch | 12:45 - | 2:15 AM |
| Keynote talk: Eduard Hovy | 2:15 - | 3:15 AM |
| Session 2: QA | 3:15 - | 3:45 AM |
| Discussion and closing remarks | 3:45 - | 4:30 AM |