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