<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9f6f90c5-63ac-6c53-a265-7bf738a6de9b"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We invite submissions to the </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">AAAI Spring Symposium on "Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Integrating Symbolic and Distributional Approaches", to be held at Stanford University, CA, March 23-25, 2015.  This will be a 2.5 day workshop in which we discuss methods for KR&R that can combine the strengths of symbolic approaches (e.g., knowledge bases, first order logic) with distributed approaches (e.g., deep learning, spectral embeddings), as well as hybrid variants thereof (e.g., hierarchical Bayesian models, probabilistic logic). We are interested in systems that can go beyond classifying inputs into one of a smallish set of labels, but instead can produce responses from an exponentially large set of possible answers (e.g., think of an open-domain question answering system, or a system that can predict the future behavior of a person given various sensory inputs).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Our preliminary list of inv</span><a href="https://www.hds.utc.fr/~bordesan/dokuwiki/doku.php" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ited speakers </span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">includes Ant</span><a href="http://leon.bottou.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">oines Borde</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">s, Leon Botto</span><a href="http://web.mit.edu/cocosci/josh.html" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">u, William Coh</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">en, Noa</span><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~ngoodman/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">h Goodman, P</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ercy Liang, David Mc</span><span style="text-decoration:none;font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">All</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ester, Josh</span><a href="http://www.cyc.com/about/team/michael-witbrock" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> Tenenbaum, Micha</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">el Witt</span><a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./wcohen/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">brock, Luke Z</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ettlemo</span><a href="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~lsz/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">yer.</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~lsz/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">S</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ubmission</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">s should be up to 4 pages in</span><a href="http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~dmcallester/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> PDF format, and </span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">are </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">due by October 10, 2014. </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please upload via </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=krr2015" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,51,204);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=krr2015</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> ; no email submissions will be accepted. Author names and affiliations should be displayed on the first page.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The organizers are Andrew McCallum (UMass), Ramanathan Guha (Google), Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), Kevin Murphy (Google).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Further details can be found at <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/krr2015/">https://sites.google.com/site/krr2015/</a>.</span></p><br><br></span></div>