<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><b class=""> Deadline extended to May 27th 2024 </b><br class=""><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><b class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></b><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">---------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Last CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div class="">----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">International Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP) @ACL 2024 (<a href="https://splu-robonlp-2024.github.io/" class="">https://splu-robonlp-2024.github.io/</a>)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Location: Bangkok, Thailand</div><div class="">Date: August 16, 2024</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">IMPORTANT DATES</div><div class="">---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">Important Dates</div><div class="">- Submission Deadline: <strike class="">17 May</strike> 27 May 2024 (Anywhere on Earth)</div><div class="">- Notification of Acceptance: 17 June 2024 (Anywhere on Earth)</div><div class="">- Camera Ready Deadline: 1 July 2024 (Anywhere on Earth)</div><div class="">- Workshop Day: 16 August 2024 (co-located with ACL 2024)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">AIM AND SCOPE</div><div class="">---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">Leveraging the foundation built in the prior workshops SpLU-RoboNLP 2023, SpLU-RoboNLP 2021, SpLU 2020, SpLU-RoboNLP 2019, SpLU 2018, and RoboNLP 2017, we propose the fourth combined workshop on Spatial Language Understanding and Grounded Communication for Robotics. Natural language communication with general-purpose embodied robots has long been a dream inspired by science fiction, and natural language interfaces have the potential to make robots more accessible to a wider range of users. Achieving this goal requires the continuous improvement of and development of new technologies for linking language to perception and action in the physical world. In particular, given the rise of large vision and language generative models, spatial language understanding and natural interactions have become more exciting topics to explore. This joint workshop aims to bring together the perspectives of researchers working on physical robot systems with human users, simulated embodied environments, multimodal interaction, and spatial language understanding to forge collaborations.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">TOPICS OF INTEREST</div><div class="">---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">We are interested in but not limited to original research in developing computational models, benchmarks, evaluation metrics, analysis, surveys, and position papers on the following topics:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Deployment of Large Language Models for Situated Dialogue and Language Grounding</div><div class="">- Spatial Reasoning with Large Language Models</div><div class="">- Aligning and Translating Language to Situated Actions</div><div class="">- Evaluation Metrics for Language Grounding and Human-Robot Communication</div><div class="">- Human-Computer Interactions Through Natural or Structural Language</div><div class="">- Instruction Understanding and Spatial Reasoning based on Multimodal Information for Navigation, Articulation, and Manipulation</div><div class="">- Interactive Situated Dialogue for Physical Tasks</div><div class="">- Language-based Game Playing for Grounding</div><div class="">- Spatial Language and Skill Learning via Grounded Dialogue</div><div class="">- (Spatial) Language Generation for Embodied Tasks</div><div class="">- (Spatially-) Grounded Knowledge Representations</div><div class="">- Spatial Reasoning in Image and Video Diffusion Models</div><div class="">- Qualitative Spatial Representations and Neuro-symbolic Modeling</div><div class="">- Utilization and Limitations of Large (Multimodal-)Language Models in Spatial Understanding and Grounded Communication</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class=""><b class="">INVITED SPEAKERS</b></div><div class="">———————————————————————————————</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Malihe Alikhani, Northeastern University</b></div><div class=""><b class="">Danial Fried, Carnegie Mellon University </b></div><div class=""><b class="">Inderjeet Mani, (Formerly) Yahoo Labs</b></div><div class=""><b class="">Yu Su, Ohio State University</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are open to the nomination of additional speakers and encourage self-nomination. The speakers are REQUIRED to attend the workshop in person. We aim to gather a diverse set of senior/junior speakers from academia/industry who work on related topics in language, vision and robotics and did not have a chance to speak in the past versions of the workshop. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you are interested, please email <a href="mailto:splu-robonlp2024@googlegroups.com" class="">splu-robonlp2024@googlegroups.com</a> and include your tentative topic.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS</div><div class="">---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">* Long Papers * </div><div class="">Technical papers: ACL style, 8 pages excluding references</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Short Papers *</div><div class="">Position statements describing previously unpublished work or demos: ACL style, 4 pages excluding references</div><div class="">ACL Style Files (GitHub): <a href="https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/tree/master/templates" class="">https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/tree/master/templates</a></div><div class="">ACL Style Files (Overview): <a href="https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr" class="">https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr</a></div><div class="">OpenReview Submission: <a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/SpLU-RoboNLP" class="">https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/SpLU-RoboNLP</a></div><div class="">Non-Archival Option: ACL workshops are traditionally archival. To allow dual submission of your work to SpLU-RoboNLP 2024 from *ACL Findings and other conferences/journals, we are also including a non-archival track. Space permitting, these submissions will still participate and present their work in the workshop, and will be hosted on the workshop website, but will not be included in the official proceedings. Please apply the ACL format and submit through OpenReview, but indicate that this is a cross-submission (non-archival) at the bottom of the submission form.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</div><div class="">---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">Parisa Kordjamshidi, Michigan State University</div><div class="">Xin Eric Wang, University of California Santa Cruz</div><div class="">Yue Zhang, Michigan State University</div><div class="">Ziqiao Ma, University of Michigan</div><div class="">Mert Inan, Northeastern University</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">ADVISING COMMITTEE</div><div class="">---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">Raymond J. Mooney, The University of Texas at Austin</div><div class="">Joyce Y. Chai, University of Michigan</div><div class="">Anthony G. Cohn, University of Leeds</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">CONTACT</div><div class="">---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">Feel free to contact the Organizing Committee at <a href="mailto:splu-robonlp2024@googlegroups.com" class="">splu-robonlp2024@googlegroups.com</a>.</div><div class="">-------------------------------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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