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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>****************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> Cognitive Computation: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Integrating Neural and Symbolic Approaches<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> (CoCo @ NIPS 2016)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>****************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Workshop at NIPS 2016, Barcelona, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>December 09, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>== WORKSHOP WEBPAGE ==<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.neural-symbolic.org/CoCo2016/">http://www.neural-symbolic.org/CoCo2016/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>== KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ==<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Barbara Hammer, Bielefed University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Risto Miikkulainen, University of Texas at Austin & Sentient Technologies, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Kristina Toutanova, Microsoft Research<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>== PANELISTS ==<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Yoshua Bengio, University of Montreal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Marco Gori, University of Siena<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Gary Marcus, New York University & Geometric Intelligence, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Michael Witbrock, IBM Research<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>== MISSION STATEMENT ==<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>While early work on knowledge representation and inference was primarily symbolic, the corresponding approaches subsequently fell out of favor, and were largely supplanted by connectionist methods. In this workshop, we will work to close the gap between the two paradigms, and aim to formulate a new unified approach that is inspired by our current understanding of human cognitive processing. This is important to help improve our understanding of Neural Information Processing and build better Machine Learning systems, including the integration of learning and reasoning in dynamic knowledge-bases, and reuse of knowledge learned in one application domain in analogous domains.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The workshop brings together established leaders and promising young scientists in the fields of neural computation, logic and artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, natural language understanding, machine learning, cognitive science and computational neuroscience. Invited lectures by senior researchers will be complemented with presentations based on contributed papers reporting recent work (following an open call for papers) and a poster session, giving ample opportunity for participants to interact and discuss the complementary perspectives and emerging approaches.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The workshop targets a single broad theme of general interest to the vast majority of the NIPS community, namely translations between connectionist models and symbolic knowledge representation and reasoning for the purpose of achieving an effective integration of neural learning and cognitive reasoning, called neural-symbolic computing. The study of neural-symbolic computing is now an established topic of wider interest to NIPS with topics that are relevant to almost everyone studying neural information processing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><br>== KEYWORDS == <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The following list gives some (but by far not all) relevant keywords for the CoCo @ NIPS 2016 workshop:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>- <span style='color:black'>neural-symbolic computing; <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- language processing and reasoning; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- cognitive agents; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- multimodal learning; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- deep networks; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- knowledge extraction; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- symbol manipulation;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- variable binding; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- memory-based networks; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- dynamic knowledge-bases;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- integration of learning and reasoning;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- explainable AI.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>== WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ==<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>- Tarek R. Besold (University of Bremen, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>- Antoine Bordes (Facebook AI Research, USA)<br>- Artur d'Avila Garcez (City University London, UK)<br>- Greg Wayne (Google DeepMind, UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>