CRAC 2018 - Computational models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC)

Background There has been a lot of research activity in anaphora / coreference resolution in recent years, but once the DAARC series ended, there were no events in Computational Linguistics entirely dedicated to this type of work. The Coreference Beyond Ontonotes (CORBON) workshops held in 2016 (with NAACL) and 2017 (with EACL) partially addressed this need, but their focus was primarily on under-investigated coreference phenomena. The CRAC series of workshops is intended to be an event of interest to the entire anaphora / coreference / reference community.
Objectives The aim of the proposed workshop(s) is to provide a forum where work on all aspects of computational work on anaphora resolution and annotation, including both coreference and types of anaphora such as bridging references resolution and discourse deixis, can be presented. We also intend to attract work on reference (e.g., deictical reference to objects displayed in a multimodal interface).
Topics The workshop will welcome submissions describing both theoretical and applied computational work on anaphora, coreference and reference, including work in languages other than English, and on less-researched types of anaphora such as bridging references. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Coreference resolution for English and less-researched languages;
Annotation and interpretation of anaphoric relations, including relations other than identity coreference (e.g., bridging references, reference to abstract entities, etc.);
Interpretation of referring expressions in multimodal contexts;
Investigation of difficult cases of anaphora / coreference and their resolution;
Anaphora / coreference resolution in noisy data (e.g. in speech, social media);
New applications of coreference resolution.