DiSpoL 2015

Identification and Annotation of Discourse Relations
in Spoken Language

October 1-2 2015 in Saarbrücken

DiSpoL 2015

The workshop Identification and Annotation of Discourse Relations in Spoken Language (DiSpoL 2015) is part of the COST Action TextLink "Structuring Discourse in Multilingual Europe".

Workshop goal

The overall goal of the workshop is the development of a unified annotation framework for discourse-relational devices (DRDs) that is applicable to different languages and text types, including spoken and written dimensions.

The DiSpoL workshop is organised by the COST Action TextLink "Structuring Discourse in Multilingual Europe" and will be hosted by the department of Computational Linguistics & Phonetics at Saarland University. The workshop will take place from October 1-2, 2015 in Saarbrücken (Germany).

Keynote speech

We are happy to announce that Jacob Eisenstein (Georgia Institute of Technology) has accepted our invitation as invited speaker.

Travel/reimbursement information

Costs for travel and accommodation expenses will be reimbursed for to up to 15 participants from Textlink member countries (Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom), according to the following reimbursement rates specified by COST and the Textlink MC: travel expenses, plus 100€ for accommodation per night (including breakfast), and 20€ per meal. Participants eligible for reimbursement will be chosen to ensure coverage of as many languages and resources as possible.

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