Connectionists: [CFP] Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) & Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP) @NAACL-HLT 2019
Kordjamshidi, Parisa
pkordjam at tulane.edu
Tue Jan 8 15:10:47 EST 2019
CALL FOR PAPERS
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Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) & Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP)
NAACL-HLT 2019, June 6 or 7, Minneapolis, USA.
Website: https://splu-robonlp.github.io<https://splu-robonlp.github.io/>
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AIM AND SCOPE
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SpLU-RoboNLP 2019 is a combined workshop on spatial language understanding (SpLU) and grounded communication for robotics (RoboNLP) that focuses on spatial language, both linguistic and theoretical aspects, and its application to various areas including and especially focusing on robotics. The combined workshop aims to bring together members of NLP, robotics, vision, and related communities in order to initiate discussions across fields dealing with spatial language along with other modalities. The desired outcome is identification of both shared and unique challenges, problems and future directions across the fields and various application domains.
While language can encode highly complex, relational structures of objects, spatial relations between them, and patterns of motion through space, the community has only scratched the surface on how to encode and reason about spatial semantics. Despite this, spatial language is crucial to robotics, navigation, NLU, translation and more. Standardizing tasks is challenging as we lack formal domain independent meaning representations. Spatial semantics requires an interplay between language, perception and (often) interaction.
Following the exciting recent progress in visual language grounding, the embodied, task-oriented aspect of language grounding is an important and timely research direction. To realize the long-term goal of robots that we can converse with in our homes, offices, hospitals, and warehouses, it is essential that we develop new techniques for linking language to action in the real world, where spatial language understanding is essential. Can we give instructions to robotic agents to assist with navigation and manipulation tasks in remote settings? Can we talk to robots about the surrounding visual world, and help them interactively learn the language needed to finish a task? We hope to learn about (and begin to answer) these questions as we delve deeper into spatial language understanding and grounding language for robotics.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The major topics covered in the workshop include:
1. Spatial Language Meaning Representation (Continuous, Symbolic)
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Spatial Language Learning and Reasoning
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Multimodal Spatial Understanding
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Instruction Following (real or simulated)
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Grounded or Embodied tasks
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Datasets and evaluation metrics
For a full description and subtopics, please look at the workshop website at
https://splu-robonlp.github.io/
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline: March 6th, 2019
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Notification: March 27th, 2019
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Camera Ready deadline: April 5th, 2019
* Workshop Day: June 6th or 7th, 2019
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SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS
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Submission details
We encourage contributions with technical papers (NAACL style, 8 pages without references) or position statements (NAACL style, 4 pages maximum) describing previously unpublished work. NAACL Style files are available here<https://naacl2019.org/calls/papers>. Please make submissions via Softconf here<https://www.softconf.com/naacl2019/splu>.
Best Papers
The SpLU-RoboNLP 2019 expert program committee will select the best paper for an award.
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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Joyce Chai<http://www.cse.msu.edu/~jchai/>, Michigan State University (confirmed)
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Dhruv Batra<https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~dbatra/>, GaTech/FAIR (to be confirmed)
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Mary Ellen Foster<http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~mefoster/>, Glasgow University (to be confirmed)
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Dilek Hakkani-Tur<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GMcL_9kAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1&oi=ao>, Amazon (to be confirmed)
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Cynthia Matuszek<https://www.csee.umbc.edu/~cmat/>, UMBC (to be confirmed)
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Raymond J. Mooney<https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~mooney/>, UT Austin (to be confirmed)
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Matthias Scheutz<https://engineering.tufts.edu/people/faculty/matthias-scheutz>, Tufts (to be confirmed)
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Stefanie Tellex<https://cs.brown.edu/~stefie10/>, Brown (to be confirmed)
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Andrea Thomaz<https://robo-nlp.github.io/www.ece.utexas.edu/people/faculty/andrea-thomaz>, UT Austin (to be confirmed)
* David Traum<http://people.ict.usc.edu/~traum/>, USC (to be confirmed)
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Yoav Artzi
Cornell University
Jacob Arkin
Univ of Rochester
Jason Baldridge
Google Inc. Mountain View CA
John A. Bateman
Universität Bremen
Mehul Bhatt
Örebro University
Jonathan Berant
Tel-Aviv University
Raffaella Bernardi
University of Trento
Steven Bethard
University of Arizona
Yonatan Bisk
University of Washington
Johan Bos
University of Groningen
Kalesha Bullard
Georgia Tech
Volkan Cirik
CMU
Guillem Collell
KU Leuven
Joyce Chai
Michigan State University
Simon Dobnik
CLASP and FLOV, University of Gothenburg
Ekaterina Egorova
University of Zurich
Zoe Falomir
Universität Bremen
Daniel Fried
UCSF
Lucian Galescu
IHMC
Felix Gervits
Tufts
Hannaneh Hajishirzi
University of Washington
Matthew Hausknecht
University of Texas
Julia Hockenmaier
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Casey Kennington
Boise State University
Jayant Krishnamurthy
Semantic Machines
Stephanie Lukin
Army Research Laboratory
Bruno Martins
University of Lisbon
Chris Mavrogiannis
Cornell
Hongyuan Mei
Johns Hopkins
Dipendra Misra
Cornell University
Ray Mooney
University of Texas
Srini Narayanan
Google Inc. Mountain View CA
Mari Broman Olsen
Microsoft
Martijn van Otterlo
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Aishwarya Padmakumar
UT Austin
Natalie Parde
University of Illinois Chicago
Ian Perera
IHMC
Preeti Ramaraj
University of Michigan
Siva Reddy
Stanford
Kirk Roberts
The University of Texas Health
Anna Rohrbach
UC Berkeley
Marcus Rohrbach
FAIR
Manolis Savva
Princeton University
Jivko Sinapov
Tufts
Kristin Stock
Massey University of New Zealand
Alane Suhr
Cornell
Clare Voss
ARL
Matt Walter
TTI-C
Tom Williams
University of Bristol
Mark Yatskar
Allen Institute
Shiqi Zhang
SUNY Binghamton
Victor Zhong
University of Washington
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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James F. Allen<http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~james/>
University of Rochester<https://www.rochester.edu/>, IHMC<https://www.ihmc.us/>
jallen at ihmc.us<mailto:jallen at ihmc.us>
Jacob Andreas<https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jda/>
Semantic Machines/MIT<http://www.semanticmachines.com/>
jda at cs.berkeley.edu<mailto:jda at cs.berkeley.edu>
Jason Baldridge<http://www.jasonbaldridge.com/>
Google<https://www.google.com/>
jasonbaldridge at google.com<mailto:jasonbaldridge at google.com>
Mohit Bansal<http://www.cs.unc.edu/~mbansal/>
UNC Chapel Hill<https://www.unc.edu/>
mbansal at cs.unc.edu<mailto:mbansal at cs.unc.edu>
Archna Bhatia (Co-chair)<https://www.ihmc.us/groups/abhatia/>
IHMC<https://www.ihmc.us/>
abhatia at ihmc.us<mailto:abhatia at ihmc.us>
Yonatan Bisk<http://www.yonatanbisk.com/>
Univ of Washington<https://www.washington.edu/>
ybisk at yonatanbisk.com<mailto:ybisk at yonatanbisk.com>
Asli Celikyilmaz<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/aslicel/>
Microsoft Research<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/>
asli.ca at live.com<mailto:asli.ca at live.com>
Bonnie J. Dorr<https://www.ihmc.us/groups/bdorr/>
IHMC<https://www.ihmc.us/>
bdorr at ihmc.us<mailto:bdorr at ihmc.us>
Parisa Kordjamshidi<http://www.cs.tulane.edu/%7Epkordjam/> (Chair)
Tulane University<https://tulane.edu/>, IHMC<https://www.ihmc.us/>
pkordjam at tulane.edu<mailto:pkordjam at tulane.edu>
Matthew Marge<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=K931JfEAAAAJ&hl=en>
Army Research Lab<https://www.arl.army.mil/>
matthew.r.marge.civ at mail.mil<mailto:matthew.r.marge.civ at mail.mil>
Jesse Thomason<https://jessethomason.com/>
Univ of Washington<https://www.washington.edu/>
thomason.jesse at gmail.com<mailto:thomason.jesse at gmail.com>
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CONTACT
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Feel free to contact Organizing Committee at
splu-robonlp-2019 at googlegroups.com<mailto:splu-robonlp-2019 at googlegroups.com>
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Kordjamshidi, Parisa
Assistant Professor
CS Department at Tulane University
Research Scientist at IHMC<https://www.ihmc.us>
Homepage<http://www.cs.tulane.edu/~pkordjam/>
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