The QUD-Anno Challenge

Annotating Text with Questions under Discussion

The workshop will take place online. If you are interested in participating, please mail to Arndt Riester and you will receive an invitation.

Programme for Thursday, 23rd, 2023

10:00 - 10:20

Introduction to the workshop

10:20 - 11:10

Oliver Deck, Tatjana Scheffler and Hannah J. Seemann (RUB).

QUD Structure as Discourse Structure: Segmentation, Labelling, and Genre Characteristics of Longer Texts. (PDF) (SLIDES)

11:20 - 12:10

Christoph Hesse (ZAS Berlin), Ralf Klabunde (RUB) and Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin).

Non-at-issue content in three text genres. (PDF) (SLIDES)

12:10 - 14:00

Break

14:00 - 14:50

Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke, Bozhidara Hristova, Heiner Drenhaus and Ingo Reich (Universität des Saarlandes).

What are you talking about? Estimating the probablity of Questions Under Discussion based on crowdsourced non-expert annotations. (PDF) (SLIDES)

15:00 - 15:50

Zurine Abalos, Elena Castroviejo (UPV/EHU Basque Country) and Melanie S. Masià (UIB les Illes Balears).

Do topic shifts challenge discourse coherence? (PDF) (SLIDES)

16:00 - 16:50

Arndt Riester (Universität Bielefeld).

The uncertain lifespan of topics in the right frontier (and other issues). (PDF) (SLIDES)

Programme for Friday, 24th, 2023

14:00 - 15:00

Laia Mayol (UPF Barcelona)

TED-Q: a dataset of evoked questions

(15 min. talk + 45 min. discussion)

15:00 - 16:00

Matthijs Westera (Universiteit Leiden)

ChatQUD

(15 min. talk + 45 min. discussion)

16:00 - 17:00

Lisa Brunetti (Université Paris Cité/CNRS)

Linguistic form and contrast as cues for QUD structure: the case of adjuncts.

(15 min. talk + 45 min. discussion)

17:00

Closing Discussion