Program

PDT (UTC-7) Title  
08:15-08:30 Opening Remarks  
08:30-09:30 Invited Talk: Joyce Y. Chai – Situated Human-Machine Communication  
09:30-10:30 Invited Talk: Imed Zitouni – Toward Better Natural Language Interfaces: Leveraging the Power of Web Documents for QA  
10:30-10:45 Break  
10:45-11:00
 Contributed Talk: Answering Complex Questions by Combining Information from Curated and Extracted Knowledge Bases  
11:00-11:15
 Contributed Talk: Unnatural Language Processing: Bridging the Gap Between Synthetic and Natural Language Data  
11:15-11:30
 Contributed Talk: Towards Reversal-Based Textual Data Augmentation for NLI Problems with Opposable Classes  
11:30-12:30 Invited Talk: Monica Lam – Let’s Build an Open Programmable Virtual Assistant with Privacy  
12:30-13:30 Break  
13:30-14:30 Invited Talk: Percy Liang – Reflections on Semantic Parsing and Learning from Users  
14:30-14:45
 Contributed Talk: Examination and Extension of Strategies for Improving Personalized Language Modeling via Interpolation  
14:45-15:00
 Contributed Talk: A Multi-Modal Agent that Learns Concepts and Conditionals from Natural Language and Demonstrations  
15:00-15:15
 Contributed Talk: Efficient Deployment of Conversational Natural Language Interfaces over Databases  
15:15-15:30
 Contributed Talk: Neural Multi-task Text Normalization and Sanitization with Pointer-Generator  
15:30-15:45 Break  
15:45-16:45 Invited Talk: H V Jagadish – Natural Language in a Database Management System  
16:45-17:45 Invited Talk: Luke Zettlemoyer – Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training  
17:45-17:50 Closing Remarks  
                                                                                                                                     


Accepted Papers

(In random ordering)