The 4th workshop "RST and Discourse Studies" was also held within STIL (2013) in Fortaleza, Brazil

RST and discourse studies” workshop gathers researchers, professors and students of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics or Information Science who work with Rhetorical Structure Theory (MANN and THOMPSON, 1988) or similar theories and models. The goal is to enable the showing of researches carried out in different institutions and research groups in different countries. The 4th edition of the workshop will be held on the October 23rd, 2013, as a satellite meeting of the 9th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology (STIL – http://www2.unifor.br/bracis2013/call-for-papers-stil), in Fortaleza, Brazil. The 1st edition of the workshop was held at 16thIntercâmbio de Pesquisas em Linguística Aplicada (InPLA), in 2007, at PUC-SP. The second edition, in 2009, was named “Brazilian RST Meeting” within STIL in São Carlos (http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/stil09/). The 3rd workshop “RST and Discourse Studies” was also held within STIL (2011) in Cuiabá (http://corpus.iingen.unam.mx/RST_2011/).