The TextLink COST Action addresses Discourse Relational Devices (DRDs) in terms of resources, annotation models (including their comparability), and tools both for annotating DRDs and interconnecting annotated data. With a network covering research on no less than 20 different languages, written as well as spoken discourse, in a variety of genres and registers, and corpora that range from « in construction » to « fully annotated », the third and final Action Conference will be the occasion to take stock of the progress achieved, insisting on evaluation of discourse related resources and bridges between them, as well as opening to applications of the network results.
The meeting is open to everyone, both current members of TextLink and other researchers and practitioners working in the area.
Submission on Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=textlink2018
Invited speakers :
Anette Frank (Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University, Germany)
Program Committee :
Maria Josep Cuenca (University of València)
Liesbeth Degand (Université catholique de Louvain)
Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac (CLLE-ERSS, University of Toulouse)
Amália Mendes (Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa)
Jiri Mirovsky (Charles University in Prague)
Philippe Muller (IRIT, Toulouse University)
Hannah Rohde (The University of Edinburgh)
Ted Sanders (Utrecht University)
Manfred Stede (Univ Potsdam)
Jacqueline Visconti (University of Genoa)
Bonnie Webber (The University of Edinburgh)
Deniz Zeyrek (Middle East Technical University)
Sandrine Zufferey (University of Bern)
Auditorium
IRIT (http://www.irit.fr)
Paul Sabatier University (http://www.ups-tlse.fr/html/carte.pdf)
Toulouse France
Monday 19 March, 14:00: Start of the conference
Tuesday 20 March, all day: Conference (and Gala dinner)
Wednesday 21 March, 14:00: End of the conference
The conference will be preceded by a steering committee meeting (TextLink managers and working group leaders) on Monday 19 March (9-12:30).
The conference will be followed by an MC meeting (Wednesday 21, 14:30 - 16:30). This meeting is open to all TextLink members, but only MC members have voting right (one vote per country).
Because of severe disturbances in the Jean Jaurès University (because of a big wave of strikes), the Final Action Conference will be held at the IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse – Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research)
Accommodation :
The suggested hotels are located in the center of Toulouse, close to Metro line B that is directly connected to the Paul Sabatier University :
Another possibility is to book a studio in The Aparthotel Adagio Saint-Cyprien which is situated rive gauche in the lively Saint-Cyprien neighborhood (close to Metro line A, at 3 stops to the Metro line B connection). We have pre-booked 21 studios accommodating one to two people (a special price was negotiated -- 83.00€ BB, simply indicate "TEXTLINK conference" when booking):
https://www.adagio-city.com/
Social Dinner location: https://www.dropbox.com/s/whi104gtn6yz2vz/piedssouslatable.pdf?dl=0
Tuesday evening Drink location: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0345zv8ppno8p09/dynamo.pdf?dl=0
Participants who are eligible for reimbursement will be reimbursed according to COST rules. Accommodation will be reimbursed at a flat rate of 100 euro per night.Meals (excl. those provided by the organiser) will be reimbursed at a flat rate of 20 euro per meal.
Lunch during the conference will be provided.In particular, there are some strict rules pertaining to:
More information is available in these guidelines and in the COST Vademecum.
Finally, participants must sign the attendance register at the meeting in order to ensure they will be reimbursed.
