ws discourse relations coling acl august montreal call papers coling acl 98 workshop discourse relations discourse markers august 15 1998 universite de montreal montreal canada notion discourse relation received many interpretations hardly compatible one another nonetheless consensus among researchers intersegment relations hold adjacent portions text relations may signalled linguistic means including socalled cue phrases aspect mood shifts theme inversions markers workshop intends bring together researchers working discourse relations discourse markers different linguistic traditions different nlp applications particular focus workshop issue discourse relations viewpoint linguistic realization specifically contributions address one following questions sound methodologies comparing similar discourse markers contrastive studies distribution analyses etc sound methodologies relating discourse relations potential realizations discourse relations always lexically signalled never lexically signalled nonlexical e syntactic prosodic means used signal relation production one decide whether signal relation production one motivate choice among candidate signals given relation production choice signal interact decisions particular linearizing tree graph structure analysis possible reliably infer discourse relations surface cues analysis one disambiguate polysemous signals since temporal causal etc useful lexical representations discourse markers analysis production useful representations discourse relations entities relate facilitate realization decision features would one like handy representation choices made easily significant differences realizations spoken written language individual languages differ terms issues organizing committee workshop organized manfred stede technical university berlin leo wanner university stuttgart eduard hovy isi usc marina del rey call papers well future information workshop found http www cs tuberlin de marker aclcolingws html requirements submission papers invited address topics listed maximum length 8 pages including figures references please use a4 us letter format set margins text lies within rectangle 6 5 x 9 inches 16 5 x 23 cm use classical fonts times roman computer modern 11 12 points text 14 16 points headings title latex users encouraged use style file provided acl http colingacl 98 iro umontreal ca colaclsub sty papers submitted either electronically postscript format hardcopies submission north america sent eduard hovy information sciences institute 4676 admiralty way marina del rey ca 902926695 u hovy isi edu submissions elsewhere sent either following manfred stede leo wanner tu berlin computer science department kit project group intelligent systems sekr fr 610 university stuttgart franklinstr 28 29 breitwiesenstr 2022 d10587 berlin d70565 stuttgart germany germany stede cs tuberlin de wannerlo informatik unistuttgart de timetable deadline electronic submissions april 7 1998 deadline hardcopy submissions april 10 arrival date notification acceptance may 1 1998 final manuscripts due june 12 1998 program committee sandra carberry u delaware barbara dieugenio u pittsburgh eduard hovy usc isi alistair knott u edinburgh alex lascarides u edinburgh owen rambow cogentex inc ted sanders u utrecht donia scott u brighton wilbert spooren u tilburg manfred stede tu berlin keith vander linden calvin college marilyn walker att laboratories leo wanner u stuttgart eduard hovy email hovy isi edu usc information sciences institute tel 310822 1511 ext 731 4676 admiralty way fax 310823 6714 marina del rey ca 902926695 project homepage http www isi edu naturallanguage nlpat isi html