Connectionists: CFP AAAI Spring Symposium on Knowledge Representation & Reasoning: Combining Statistical and Symbolic approaches

[Kevin Murphy]

UPDATE: deadline extended to October 20, 2014.


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:50 AM, Kevin Murphy <murphyk at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:

> We invite submissions to the 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).
>
> Our preliminary list of invited speakers
> <https://www.hds.utc.fr/~bordesan/dokuwiki/doku.php>includes Antoines
> Borde <http://leon.bottou.org/>s, Leon Bottou, William Coh
> <http://web.mit.edu/cocosci/josh.html>en, Noah Goodman, P
> <http://www.stanford.edu/~ngoodman/>ercy Liang, David McAllester, Josh
> Tenenbaum, Micha <http://www.cyc.com/about/team/michael-witbrock>el Wittbrock,
> Luke Z <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./wcohen/>ettlemoyer.
> <http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~lsz/>
>
> Submission <http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~lsz/>s should be up to 4
> pages in PDF format, and <http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~dmcallester/>are due
> by October 10, 2014. Please upload via
> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=krr2015 ; no email submissions
> will be accepted. Author names and affiliations should be displayed on the
> first page.
>
> The organizers are Andrew McCallum (UMass), Ramanathan Guha (Google),
> Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), Kevin Murphy (Google).
>
> Further details can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/krr2015/.
>
>
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