EMNLP 2016 Workshop on Uphill Battles in Language Processing (original) (raw)
Text Understanding
Hal Daume III, University of Maryland, College Park
Andrew Kehler, University of California, San Diego
Chris Manning, Stanford University
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ohio State University
Generation
Ioannis Konstas, University of Washington
Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University
Margaret Mitchell*, Microsoft Research
Donia Scott, University of Sussex
* Grounded language generation
Dialogue and Speech
David DeVault, University of Southern California
Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh
Amanda Stent, Bloomberg
Grounded Language
James Allen, University of Rochester / IHMC
Joyce Chai, Michigan State University
Yejin Choi, University of Washington
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
The workshop will also feature a poster session for students and researchers to present and discuss their current work. A short description of each poster will appear in the workshop proceedings.
9:00
Text Understanding
Invited talks, followed by discussion
Chairs: Annie Louis, Michael Roth
Reading between the Lines [abstract] [slides]
Hal Daume III
Opportunities and Challenges for a Bayesian Approach to Language Processing [abstract] [slides]
Andrew Kehler
A (maybe not yet) Unified Theory of Inference for Text Understanding [abstract] [slides]
Chris Manning
Drawing Inferences [abstract] [slides]
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
10:20
Poster Boasters I
An Analysis of Prerequisite Skills for Reading Comprehension
Saku Sugawara, Akiko Aizawa
Bridging the gap between computable and expressive event representations in Social Media
Darina Benikova, Torsten Zesch
Statistical Script Learning with Recurrent Neural Networks
Karl Pichotta, Raymond Mooney
Moving away from semantic overfitting in disambiguation datasets
Marten Postma, Filip Ilievski, Piek Vossen, Marieke van Erp
Unsupervised Event Coreference for Abstract Words
Dheeraj Rajagopal, Eduard Hovy, Teruko Mitamura
Towards Broad-coverage Meaning Representation: The Case of Comparison Structures
Omid Bakhshandeh, James Allen
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
Natural Language Generation
Invited talks, followed by discussion
Chair: Michael White
Neural Natural Language Generation [abstract] [slides]
Ioannis Konstas
Uphill Battles in Language Generation: Sentence Planning and Lexical Choice [slides]
Kathleen McKeown
Strong Baselines, Evaluation, and the Role of Humans in Grounded Language Generation [abstract] [slides]
Margaret Mitchell
An Uphill Battle: Achieving Pragmatic Congruency in Multilingual Texts [abstract] [slides]
Donia Scott
12:20
Poster Boasters II
DialPort: A General Framework for Aggregating Dialog Systems
Tiancheng Zhao, Kyusong Lee, Maxine Eskenazi
C2D2E2: Using Call Centers to Motivate the Use of Dialog and Diarization in Entity Extraction
Ken Church, Weizhong Zhu, Jason Pelecanos
Visualizing the Content of a Children's Story in a Virtual World: Lessons Learned
Quynh Ngoc Thi Do, Steven Bethard, Marie-Francine Moens
Stylistic Transfer in Natural Language Generation Systems Using Recurrent Neural Networks
Jad Kabbara and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
Using Language Groundings for Context-Sensitive Text Prediction
Timothy Lewis, Cynthia Matuszek, Amy Hurst, Matthew Taylor
Towards a continuous modeling of natural language domains
Sebastian Ruder, Parsa Ghaffari, John G. Breslin
12:30
Lunch break
14:00
Dialogue and Speech
Invited talks, followed by discussion
Chair: Bonnie Webber
Toward Fluid Conversational Interaction in Spoken Dialogue Systems [abstract] [slides]
David DeVault
Three Steps towards Real Artificial Speech Communication [abstract] [slides]
Mark Liberman
Cooperation in Dialogue Systems from Eliza to Alexa [abstract] [slides]
Diane Litman
Uphill Battles in Task Modeling and Grounding for Dialog [abstract] [slides]
Amanda Stent
15:20
Poster Session
including coffee break
16:30
Grounded Language
Invited talks, followed by discussion
Chair: Luke Zettlemoyer
Uphill Battles: Language Grounded in Reasoning Agents [abstract] [slides]
James Allen
Language Grounding towards Situated Human-Robot Communication [abstract] [slides]
Joyce Chai
Knowledge about the World [abstract] [slides]
Yejin Choi
Grounding Computational Linguistics in AI Planning [abstract] [slides]
Mark Steedman
17:50
Closing