Recent Publications

2019

Berfin Aktaş, Tatjana Scheffler, and Manfred Stede. Coreference in English OntoNotes: Properties and Genre Differences. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019. To appear. [Bibtex]
Peter Bourgonje and Robin Schäfer. Multi-lingual and Cross-genre Discourse Unit Segmentation. In Proc. of the Workshop on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking at NAACL. Minneapolis, MN, 2019. [Bibtex]
Peter Bourgonje and Manfred Stede. Explicit Discourse Argument Extraction for German. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019. To appear. [Bibtex]
Peter Bourgonje and Olha Zolotarenko. Toward Cross-theory Discourse Relation Annotation. In Proc. of the Workshop on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking at NAACL. Minneapolis, MN, 2019. [Bibtex]
Freya Hewett, Roshan Prakash Rane, Nina Harlacher, and Manfred Stede. The utility of discourse parsing features for predicting argumentation structure. In Proc. of the 6th Workshop on Argument Mining at ACL. Florence, Italy, 2019. To appear. [Bibtex]
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Juan Camilo Vásquez-Correa, Manfred Stede, and Elmar Nöth. Automated Cross-language Intelligibility Analysis of Parkinson's Disease Patients Using Speech Recognition Technologies (Research Proposal). In Proc. of the ACL Student Research Workshop. Florence, Italy, 2019. To appear. [Bibtex]
S. Just, E. Haegert, N. Koránová, A. Bröcker, I. Nenchev, J. Funcke, C. Montag, and M. Stede. Coherence models in schizophrenia. In Proc. of CLPSYCH, Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Workshop at NAACL. Minneapolis, MN, 2019. [Bibtex]
Tatjana Scheffler, Berfin Aktaş, Debopam Das, and Manfred Stede. Annotating Shallow Discourse Relations in Twitter Conversations. In Proc. of the Workshop on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking at NAACL. Minneapolis, MN, 2019. [Bibtex]
Maria Skeppstedt, Andreas Kerren, and Manfred Stede. Finding Reasons for Vaccination Hesitancy: Evaluating Semi-Automatic Coding of Internet Discussion Forums. In Proc. of MEDINFO. Lyon, 2019. To appear. [Bibtex]
Manfred Stede, Amália Mendes, and Tatjana Scheffler. Connective-lex: A web-based multilingual lexical resource for connectives. Discours. Revue de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique, 2019. To appear. [Bibtex]
Shujun Wan, Tino Kutschbach, Anke Lüdeling, and Manfred Stede. RST-Tace: A tool for automatic comparison and evaluation of RST trees. In Proc. of the Workshop on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking at NAACL. Minneapolis, MN, 2019. [Bibtex]

2018

Stergos Afantenos, Andreas Peldszus, and Manfred Stede. Comparing decoding mechanisms for parsing argumentative structures. Argument and Computation, 9(3):177–192, 2018. [Bibtex] [DOI] [PDF]
M. Stede and D. Das. Bangla RST Discourse Treebank: Annotation Guidelines. Unpublished manuscript, 2018. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Peter Bourgonje, Jet Hoek, Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul, Gisela Redeker, Ted Sanders, and Manfred Stede. Constructing a lexicon of dutch discourse connectives. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, 8:163–175, 12/2018 2018. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Peter Bourgonje and Manfred Stede. The Potsdam Commentary Corpus 2.1 in ANNIS3. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theory. Oslo, Norway, 2018. [Bibtex]
Peter Bourgonje and Manfred Stede. Identifying explicit discourse connectives in German. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 327–331. Melbourne, Australia, 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Debopam Das. Discourse segmentation in bangla. In Girish Nath Jha, Kalika Bali, Sobha L, and Atul Kr. Ojha, editors, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Paris, France, May 2018. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [Bibtex] [PDF]
Laurence Danlos, Katerina Rysova, Magdalena Rysova, and Manfred Stede. Primary and secondary discourse connectives: definitions and lexicons. Dialogue and Discourse, 9(1):50–78, 2018. URL: http://dad.uni-bielefeld.de/index.php/dad/article/view/3734. [Bibtex]
Das Debopam, Tatjana Scheffler, Peter Bourgonje, and Manfred Stede. Constructing a lexicon of english discourse connectives. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 360–365. Melbourne, Australia, 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Debopam Das and Manfred Stede. Developing the Bangla RST Discourse Treebank. In Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair), Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Koiti Hasida, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, and Takenobu Tokunaga, editors, Proceedings of the 11h International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'18). Miyazaki, Japan, 2018. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [Bibtex] [PDF]
Debopam Das and Maite Taboada. RST Signalling Corpus: a corpus of signals of coherence relations. Language Resources and Evaluation, 52(1):149–184, 2018. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Alexander Knoth, Manfred Stede, and Erik Hägert. Dokumentenarbeit mit hierarchisch strukturierten Texten: Eine historisch vergleichende Analyse von Verfassungen. In G. Vogeler, editor, Kritik der digitalen Vernunft - DHd 2018 Book of Abstracts. Köln, Germany, 2018. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum. [Bibtex]
Amália Mendes, Iria del Rio, Manfred Stede, and Felix Dombek. A Lexicon of Discourse Markers for Portuguese – LDM-PTs. In N. Calzolari et al., editor, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'18). Miyazaki, Japan, 2018. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [Bibtex] [PDF]
Elena Musi, Mark Aakhus, Smaranda Muresan, Andrea Rocci, and Manfred Stede. From theory to practice: the annotation of argument schemes. In Argumentation and Inference - Proc. of the 2nd European Conference on Argumentation, Fribourg, 2017. College Publications, London, 2018. [Bibtex]
Elena Musi, Tariq Alhindi, Manfred Stede, Leonard Kriese, Smaranda Muresan, and Andrea Rocci. A multi-layer annotated corpus of argumentative text: from argument schemes to discourse relations. In N. Calzolari et al., editor, Proceedings of the 11h International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'18). Miyazaki, Japan, 2018. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [Bibtex] [PDF]
Andreas Peldszus. Automatic recognition of argumentation structure in short monological texts PhD thesis, Universit\"at Potsdam, 2018. (submitted April 21, 2017; defended October 27, 2017). URL: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-421441. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Maria Skeppstedt, Andreas Peldszus, and Manfred Stede. More or less controlled elicitation of argumentative text: enlarging a microtext corpus via crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Argumentation Mining (at EMNLP), 155–163. Brussels, 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Maria Skeppstedt, Kostiantyn Kucher, Manfred Stede, and Andreas Kerren. Topics2Themes: Computer-Assisted Argument Extraction by Visual Analysis of Important Topics. In Proceedings of the LREC Workshop on Visualization as Added Value in the Development, Use and Evaluation of Language Resources, 9–16. 2018. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Maria Skeppstedt, Manfred Stede, and Andreas Kerren. Stance-taking in topics extracted from vaccine-related tweets and discussion forum posts. In Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop SMM4H: The 3rd Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop and Shared Task, 5–8. Brussels, 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Maria Skeppstedt, Andreas Kerren, and Manfred Stede. Vaccine hesitancy in discussion forums : computer-assisted argument mining with topic models. In Building Continents of Knowledge in Oceans of Data : The Future of Co-Created eHealth, number 247 in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 366–370. IOS Press, 2018. URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29677984. [Bibtex]
Manfred Stede and Jodi Schneider. Argumentation Mining volume 40 of Synthesis Lectures in Human Language Technology. Morgan & Claypool, 2018. [Bibtex]
Henning Wachsmuth, Manfred Stede, Roxanne El Baff, Khalid Al Khatib, Maria Skeppstedt, and Benno Stein. Argumentation synthesis following rhetorical strategies. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 3753–3765. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Berfin Aktaş, Tatjana Scheffler, and Manfred Stede. Anaphora resolution for twitter conversations: an exploratory study. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora, and Coreference, CRAC@HLT-NAACL 2018, 1–10. New Orleans, Louisiana, June 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. (Some numbers in Table 4 are corrected from the version published in the CRAC 2018 WS Proceedings). [Bibtex] [PDF]
Massimo Poesio, Yulia Grishina, Varada Kolhatkar, Nafise Moosavi, Ina Roesiger, Adam Roussel, Fabian Simonjetz, Alexandra Uma, Olga Uryupina, Juntao Yu, and Heike Zinsmeister. Anaphora resolution with the ARRAU corpus. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference. New Orleans, USA, June 2018. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Pietro Totis and Manfred Stede. Classifying italian newspaper text: news or editorial? In Torino, Italy, 2018. [Bibtex] [PDF]

2017

Núria Bertomeu Castelló. Extracting word lists for domain-specific implicit opinions from corpora. In International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS). Avignon, France, September 2017. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Peter Bourgonje, Yulia Grishina, and Manfred Stede. Toward a bilingual lexical database on connectives: Exploiting a German/Italian parallel corpus. In Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics. Rome, Italy, December 2017. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Debopam Das, Maite Taboada, and Manfred Stede. The good, the bad, and the disagreement: complex ground truth in rhetorical structure analysis. In Workshop on Recent Advances in RST and Related Formalisms. Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 2017. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Katarina Krüger, Anna Lukowiak, Jonathan Sonntag, and Manfred Stede. Classifying news versus opinions in newspapers: Linguistic features for domain independence. Natural Language Enginnering, 23(5):687–707, 2017. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1351324917000043. [Bibtex]
Anthony Pak-Hin Kong, Anastasia Linnik, Sam-Po Law, and Waisa Wai-Man Shum. Measuring discourse coherence in anomic aphasia using rhetorical structure theory. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 0(0):0, 2017. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2017.1293158. [Bibtex]
M. Stede, M. Taboada, and D. Das. Annotation Guidelines for Rhetorical Structure. Unpublished manuscript, 2017. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Patrick Saint-Dizier and Manfred Stede. Foundations of the Language of Argumentation. Special Issue of `Argument and Computation' volume 8(2). IOS Press, 2017. URL: http://content.iospress.com/journals/argument-and-computation/8/2. [Bibtex]
Uladzimir Sidarenka. PotTS at GermEval-2017 Task B: Document-Level Polarity Detection Using Hand-Crafted SVM and Deep Bidirectional LSTM Network . In Proceedings of the GSCL GermEval Shared Task on Aspect-based Sentiment in Social Media Customer Feedback. Berlin, Germany, 2017. URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0IJZ0wwnhHDc1ZpcU05Mnh2N0U/view. [Bibtex]
Maria Skeppstedt, Andreas Kerren, and Manfred Stede. Automatic detection of stance towards vaccination in online discussion forums. In International Workshop on Digital Disease Detection using Social Media (at IJCNLP). Taipei, Taiwan, November 2017. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Manfred Stede. Computerlinguistische Werkzeuge zur Analyse meinungsorientierter Texte: eine Fallstudie. In Hans W. Giessen and Hartmut E.H. Lenk, editors, Persuasionsstile in Europa III. Olms, Hildesheim, 2017. [Bibtex]
Yulia Grishina. Combining the output of two coreference resolution systems for two source languages to improve annotation projection. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation. Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2017. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Yulia Grishina and Manfred Stede. Multi-source projection of coreference chains: assessing strategies and testing opportunities. In Proceedings of the 2nd Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes (CORBON) Workshop. Valencia, Spain, April 2017. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Yulia Grishina. CORBON 2017 Shared Task: projection-based coreference resolution. In Proceedings of the 2nd Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes (CORBON) Workshop. Valencia, Spain, April 2017. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]

2016

K. Budzynska,, M. Janier, B. Konat, J. Kang, C. Reed, P. Saint-Dizier, M. Stede, and O. Yaskorska. Automatically identifying transitions between locutions in dialogue. In D. Mohammed, and M. Lewinski, editors, Argumentation and Reasoned Action - Proc. of the 1st European Conference on Argumentation, Lisbon, 2015. College Publications, London, 2016. [Bibtex]
Leonard Kriese. System documentation for the IGGSA shared task 2016. In J. Ruppenhofer, J.M. Struß, and M. Wiegand, editors, IGGSA Shared Task on Source and Target Extraction from Political Speeches, Bochumer Linguistische Arbeitsberichte 18. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2016. URL: https://www.linguistics.rub.de/bla/018-steps2016.pdf. [Bibtex]
S. Oepen, J. Read, T. Scheffler, U. Sidarenka, M. Stede, E. Velldal, and L. Øvrelid. OPT: Oslo–Potsdam–Teesside---Pipelining Rules, Rankers, and Classifier Ensembles for Shallow Discourse Parsing. In Proceedings of the CONLL 2016 Shared Task. Berlin, 2016. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Andreas Peldszus and Manfred Stede. An annotated corpus of argumentative microtexts. In D. Mohammed, and M. Lewinski, editors, Argumentation and Reasoned Action - Proc. of the 1st European Conference on Argumentation, Lisbon, 2015. College Publications, London, 2016. [Bibtex]
Tatjana Scheffler and Manfred Stede. Adding Semantic Relations to a Large-Coverage Connective Lexicon of German. In Nicoletta Calzolari et al., editor, Proc. of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). Portorož, Slovenia, may 2016. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [Bibtex] [PDF]
Uladzimir Sidarenka. PotTS: The Potsdam Twitter Sentiment Corpus. In Nicoletta Calzolari et al., editor, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). Portorož, Slovenia, may 2016. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [Bibtex] [PDF]
Uladzimir Sidarenka and Manfred Stede. Generating Sentiment Lexicons for German Twitter. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Modeling of People's Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media (PEOPLES 2016). Osaka, Japan, december 2016. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Uladzimir Sidarenka. PotTS at SemEval-2016 Task 4: Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Using Character-level Convolutional Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016), 235–242. San Diego, California, June 2016. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Manfred Stede. Das Potsdamer Kommentarkorpus. In Hartmut E.H. Lenk, editor, Persuasionsstile in Europa II. Olms, Hildesheim, 2016. [Bibtex]
Manfred Stede, Stergos Afantenos, Andreas Peldszus, Nicholas Asher, and Jérémy Perret. Parallel Discourse Annotations on a Corpus of Short Texts. In Nicoletta Calzolari et al., editor, Proc. of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). Portorož, Slovenia, may 2016. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [Bibtex] [PDF]
Manfred Stede and Sara Mamprin. Information structure in the Potsdam Commentary Corpus: Topics. In Nicoletta Calzolari et al., editor, Proc. of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). Portorož, Slovenia, may 2016. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [Bibtex] [PDF]
Pietro Baroni, Thomas F. Gordon, Tatjana Scheffler, and Manfred Stede. Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2016 volume 287 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. IOS Press, 2016. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Yulia Grishina. Experiments on bridging across languages and genres. In Proceedings of the Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes (CORBON) Workshop. San Diego, California, June 2016. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Yulia Grishina and Manfred Stede. Referring expressions as cohesive devices in multiple languages. In Proceedings of TextLink–Structuring Discourse in Multilingual Europe Second Action Conference, 55. Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church, Budapest, Hungary, April 2016. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Yulia Grishina and Manfred Stede. Parallel coreference annotation guidelines. November 2016. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Andreas Peldszus and Manfred Stede. Rhetorical structure and argumentation structure in monologue text. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Argumentation Mining. Berlin, September 2016. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Tatjana Scheffler and Christopher CM Kyba. Measuring social jetlag in twitter data. In Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 2016. URL: http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM16/paper/view/13080. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Tatjana Scheffler and Manfred Stede. Realizing argumentative coherence relations in German: a contrastive study of newspaper editorials and Twitter posts. In Proceedings of the COMMA Workshop "Foundations of the Language of Argumentation". Potsdam, Germany, 2016. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Tatjana Scheffler and Manfred Stede. Mapping pdtb-style connective annotation to RST-style discourse annotation. In Proceedings of KONVENS. Bochum, Germany, 2016. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Tatjana Scheffler and Elina Zarisheva. Dialog act recognition for Twitter conversations. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Normalisation and Analysis of Social Media Texts (NormSoMe), 31–38. Portorož, Slovenia, 2016. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Manfred Stede, editor. Handbuch Textannotation: Potsdamer Kommentarkorpus 2.0 volume 8 of Potsdam Cognitive Science Series. Universitaetsverlag, Potsdam, 2016. URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-82761. [Bibtex]
Anna Feltracco, Elisabetta Jezek, Bernardo Magnini, and Manfred Stede. Lico: a lexicon of italian connectives. In Proceedings of the 3rd Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it). Napoli, Italy, 2016. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Manfred Stede. Toward assessing depth of argumentation. In Proceedings of COLING 2016. Osaka, Japan, 2016. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Manfred Stede and Yulia Grishina. Anaphoricity in connectives: a case study on German. In Proceedings of the Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes (CORBON) Workshop. San Diego, California, June 2016. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]

2015

Andreas Peldszus and Manfred Stede. Joint prediction in MST-style discourse parsing for argumentation mining. In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 938–948. Lisbon, Portugal, September 2015. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Uladzimir Sidarenka, Andreas Peldszus, and Manfred Stede. Discourse Segmentation of German Texts. Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, 30(1):71–98, 2015. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Johannes Gontrum and Tatjana Scheffler. Text-based geolocation of German Tweets. In Proceedings of the NLP4CMC 2015 Workshop at GSCL. Duisburg-Essen, Germany, 2015. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Yulia Grishina and Manfred Stede. Knowledge-lean projection of coreference chains across languages. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora. Beijing, China, July 2015. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Anastasia Linnik, Roelien Bastiaanse, and Barbara Hoehle. Discourse production in aphasia: a current review of theoretical and methodological challenges. Aphasiology, 2015. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2015.1113489. [Bibtex]
Arne Neumann. Discoursegraphs: a graph-based merging tool and converter for multilayer annotated corpora. In Proceedings of the 20th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2015), 309–312. 2015. [Bibtex]
Andreas Peldszus and Manfred Stede. Towards detecting counter-considerations in text. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Argumentation Mining, 104–109. Denver, CO, June 2015. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Uladzimir Sidarenka, Matthias Bisping, and Manfred Stede. Applying Rhetorical Structure Theory to Twitter Conversations. In Proceedings of DiSpol 2015. Saarbrücken, Germany, October 2015. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Elina Zarisheva and Tatjana Scheffler. Dialog act annotation for Twitter conversations. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 114–123. Portorož, Slovenia, 2015. [Bibtex] [PDF]