Schedule

All times are Pacific (PDT).

  • 8:00-8:30 Virtual Breakfast, Networking

  • 8:30-8:45 Welcome & Introduction: Juan Pino (Meta), Dan Roth (AWS AI & UPenn)

  • 8:45-10:15 Invited Talks #1: Situated Interactions

    • 9:15-9:45 Dan Bohus (Microsoft Research)

    • 9:45-10:15 David Traum (University of Southern California)

  • 10:15-10:30 Break, Networking

  • 10:30-12:00 Invited Talks #2: Practical Issues in Dealing With Data

    • 10:30-11:00 Michelle Zhou (Juji, Inc.)

    • 11:00-11:30 Dilek Hakkani-Tur (Amazon Alexa AI)

    • 11:30-12:00 Quentin Lhoest (Hugging Face)

  • 12:00-1:00 Lunch

  • 1:00-2:00 Privacy, Ethical AI in Academia and Industry Research Labs

    • Mona Diab (moderator) (Meta)

    • Meliha Yetisgen (University of Washington)

    • Adina Williams (Meta)

    • Stefan Scherer (Embodied)

    • Sameer Singh (University of California, Irvine)

    • Meg Mitchell (Hugging Face)

  • 2:00-2:30 Lightning Talks

    • CaSiNo: A Corpus of Campsite Negotiation Dialogues for Automatic Negotiation Systems

    • Think Before You Speak: Learning to Generate Implicit Knowledge for Response Generation by Self-Talk

    • CREAD: Combined Resolution of Ellipses and Anaphora in Dialogues

  • 2:30-2:45 Break, Networking

  • 2:45-4:15 Invited Talks #3: Multilingual NLP

    • 2:45-3:15 Marine Carpuat (University of Maryland)

    • 3:15-3:45 Antonios Anastasopoulos (George Mason University)

    • 3:45-4:15 Luke Zettlemoyer (Meta)

  • 4:15-5:30 Posters

  • 5:30-6:00 (or later): Virtual Happy Hour