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| Society for Text and Discourse | |
|---|---|
| Name | Society for Text and Discourse |
| Abbreviation | StD |
| Formation | 1980s |
| Type | Learned society |
| Region | International |
| Language | English |
Society for Text and Discourse is an international professional association devoted to the study of text and discourse processing, discourse analysis, and related cognitive and computational approaches. The society connects scholars working on text coherence, pragmatic inference, discourse structure, and multimodal communication with wider scholarly communities in psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, and cognitive science. It organizes meetings, publishes proceedings and journals, and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers affiliated with universities, research institutes, and national academies.
The organization originated from informal workshops linking researchers influenced by Noam Chomsky, Herbert H. Clark, Dell Hymes, William Labov, and John Searle and expanded through connections with conferences such as ACL (conference), Cognitive Science Society, SALT Workshop, EACL, and LREC. Early founders included scholars associated with Stanford University, Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Pennsylvania, who had interactions with programs at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Haskins Laboratories, MIT Media Lab, and CNRS. Development of the society was shaped by influences from projects such as Penn Treebank, PropBank, WordNet, and collaborations among labs like Center for the Study of Language and Information and Center for Language and Speech Processing.
The society's mission emphasizes advancing research on discourse representation, coherence relations, anaphora resolution, and multimodal discourse through interdisciplinary exchange among members from University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of Chicago, Columbia University, University of Toronto, University of Edinburgh, and international centers including University of Tokyo, Peking University, and University of Melbourne. Its activities include sponsoring workshops linked to International Conference on Computational Linguistics, supporting special sessions at meetings such as Society for Neuroscience and American Psychological Association, and promoting open science practices aligned with initiatives from Association for Computational Linguistics and Open Science Framework.
Membership comprises researchers from institutions like Harvard University, Princeton University, University of California, Los Angeles, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Washington, and research organizations including Google Research, Microsoft Research, Facebook AI Research, and national laboratories such as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Governance is overseen by an elected board drawing on governance models familiar from American Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal Society, National Academy of Sciences, and professional bodies like Association for Computational Linguistics and Psychonomic Society, with committees for program planning, grants, diversity, and ethics reflecting practices at European Research Council and university senates.
The society organizes biennial and annual meetings, workshops, and symposia often collocated with major events such as ACL (conference), NAACL, EMNLP, CogSci Conference, and specialized venues like Discourse Representation Theory Workshop, SIGDial, and INLG. These meetings host keynote addresses from scholars affiliated with University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Rutgers University, Brown University, Duke University, and invite panels coordinated with laboratories such as Allen Institute for AI and SRI International. Workshops produce proceedings that are archived in venues akin to Association for Computational Linguistics Anthology and indexed in services like Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science.
The society supports publication of proceedings, edited volumes, and special issues in journals such as Journal of Memory and Language, Discourse Processes, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics (journal), and Language. It recognizes contributions through awards modeled on honors like the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award, Rumelhart Prize, MacArthur Fellowship, Penn Prize, and specific dissertation and early-career awards. Publication collaborations have involved presses and series linked to MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Springer, and Elsevier collections.
Collaborations extend to interdisciplinary networks including Neuroscience programs at Johns Hopkins University, clinical discourse work at Mayo Clinic, and educational applications connected to OECD and UNESCO initiatives. The society's methodological and theoretical outputs have influenced standards used in corpora such as Switchboard Corpus, British National Corpus, Corpus of Contemporary American English, and annotation schemes developed alongside ISO efforts and projects like TEI. Its impact spans citation networks evident in venues such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and policy discussions in bodies like European Commission and funding from agencies such as National Science Foundation, Economic and Social Research Council, and Horizon Europe.
Prominent members and leaders have included scholars associated with University of Michigan, Indiana University Bloomington, University of Groningen, Tilburg University, University of California, San Diego, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School, and research figures who have held positions at Max Planck Society, CNRS, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Leadership historically featured presidents, program chairs, and editors connected to awards and institutions like Guggenheim Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Wellcome Trust, and endowed chairs at Yale School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School.
Category:Linguistics societies