Preface

摘要

Discourse analysis as a domain focused on issues going beyond intra-sentential relations has been an important and intensively discussed topic of all prestigious linguistic and computational meetings, bringing important insights into the research area. Nevertheless we hope that our workshop on Advances in Discourse Analysis and Its Computational Aspects will not be just "one in the row" but will bring together and spread an up-to-date information on advanced computationally oriented studies in discourse analysis, and will provoke discussion on hot issues in the domain of the study in discourse, especially with respect to modern methodology and to computationally and corpus oriented research and its possible applications. Thus, we expect the workshop to attract a rather broad (and cross-domain) audience: those who are just starting their research in the given area will get enough stuff for thought how to proceed, and those who are in an advanced stage of their research will get a stimulating feedback from the floor and the discussion will make it possible for them to sharpen their ideas and plans.