Materials of DIALOGUE 2016

Central topics of “Dialogue 2016”

The use of discourse models in NLP

More and more developers are seeking to increase the effectiveness of their technologies by broadening the scope of analysis beyond individual sentences. This applies to classification, statistics-based machine translation, and entity identification and inference.

Topics of the Dialogue Evaluation competitions

As in previous years, winners will be announced from the latest cycle of tests of text analysis technologies in several categories: Sentiment Analysis, Named Entity Recognition and Fact Extraction, and Spelling Correction.

Proceedings 2016

“Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies”

The Conference Proceedings contain papers from the international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies “Dialogue”, representing a large range of theoretical and applied research in the area of natural language description, language process description, creation of applied computer-linguistic technologies. 

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Dialogue Evaluation 2016

A special direction of the "Dialogue", which is called Dialogue Evaluation, involves annual comparative testing of computer analysis systems, that solve certain practical problems. Testing results are discussed at the conference.

Invited speakers

Alessandro Moschitti

Alessandro Moschitti

Qatar

Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Mark Steedman

Mark Steedman

United Kingdom

University of Edinburgh

Bonnie Webber

Bonnie Webber

United Kingdom

University of Edinburgh

Photos

Videos

  • Bonnie Webber

    Concurrent Discourse Relations
  • Round table on computational poetics
  • Mark Steedman

    A Theory of Content for NLP