ws discourse relation coling acl august montreal call papers cole acl workshop discourse relation discourse marker august universite de montreal montreal canada notion discourse relation receive many interpretation hardly compatible one another nonetheless consensus among researcher intersegment relation hold between adjacent portion text relation signal linguistic means include socal cue phrase aspect mood shift theme inversion marker workshop intend bring together researcher work discourse relation discourse marker different linguistic tradition different nlp application particular focus workshop issue discourse relation viewpoint linguistic realization specifically contribution address one follow question sound methodology compare similar discourse marker contrastive study distribution analysis etc sound methodology relate discourse relation potential realization are discourse relation alway lexically signal are never lexically signal nonlexical e syntactic prosodic means signal relation production one decide whether signal relation production one motivate choice among candidate signal relation production choice signal interact decision particular those linearize tree graph structure analysis possible reliably infer discourse relation surface cue analysis one disambiguate polysemous signal since temporal causal etc useful lexical representation discourse marker both analysis production useful representation discourse relation entity relate facilitate realization decision feature one handy representation choice easily are significant difference between realization speak write language individual language differ term above issue organize committee workshop organize manfr stede technical university berlin leo wanner university stuttgart eduard hovy isi usc marina del rey call papers future information workshop http www c tuberlin de marker aclcolingw html requirement submission paper invite address topic list above maximum length page include figure reference please a us letter format set margin text lie within rectangle x inch x cm classical font roman computer modern point text point heading title latex user encourage style file provide acl http colingacl iro umontreal ca colaclsub sty paper submit either electronically postscript format hardcopy submission north america send eduard hovy information science institute admiralty marina del rey ca u s hovy isus edu submission elsewhere send either follow manfr stede leo wanner tu berlin computer science department kit project group intelligent system sekr fr university stuttgart franklinstr breitwiesenstr d berlin d stuttgart germany germany stede c tuberlin de wannerlo informatik unistuttgart de timetable deadline electronic submission april deadline hardcopy submission april arrival date notification acceptance final manuscript due june program committee o sandra carberry u delaware o barbara dieugenio u pittsburgh o eduard hovy usc isi o alistair knott u edinburgh o alex lascaride u edinburgh o owen rambow cogentex inc o ted sander u utrecht o donium scott u brighton o wilbert spooren u tilburg o manfr stede tu berlin o keith vander linden calvin college o marilyn walker att laboratory o leo wanner u stuttgart eduard hovy email hovy isus edu usc information science institute tel ext admiralty fax marina del rey ca project homepage http www isus edu naturallanguage nlpat isus html 