Opening remarks
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Discussion on next year workshop and SIG
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Keynote: Eunsol Choi - Learning to Understand Language in Context
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break - Gather.town (Room K)

Session 1: QA - Anaphora and coreference - Part 1
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• 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

Session 1: QA - Coherence relations, discourse parsing and corpora - Part 1
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• 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 Carenini

Session 1: QA - Discourse and dialog - Part 1
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• 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

Breakout Sessions + Lunch
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Then meet in: Gather.town (Room K)

Keynote: Eduard Hovy - - Discourse processing in the time of DNNs Zoom link 1

Session 2: QA - Anaphora and coreference - Part 2
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• Adapting Coreference Resolution to Twitter ConversationExploring Coreference Features in Heterogeneous Data with Text Classification, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Kerstin Kunz
• (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 Aktas

Session 2: QA - Coherence relations, discourse parsing and corpora - Part 2
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• 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

Session 2: QA - Discourse and language understanding
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• 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

Session 2: QA - Generation and applications
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• 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

Discussion and closing remarks
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