Schedule

Workshop will be two half-days: August 21 (2 pm – 8:00 pm UTC) and August 22 (6 am – 9:30 am UTC).

2:00 – 2:15Welcome & Introduction
2:15 – 3:00Keynote Talk 1: Neuro-symbolic models for understanding complex questions
Jonathan Berant
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3:00 – 3:45Keynote Talk 2: Knowledge-enhanced Text Generation: The Curious Case of Figurative Language and Argumentation
Smaranda Muresan
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3:45 – 4:00Break
4:00 – 6:00Invited & Contributed Talks
(20 min) How can BERT Understand High-level Semantics? paper
(30 min) Reasoning using DeepProbLog paper
(30 min) Can Cognitive Neuroscience inform Neuro-Symbolic Inference Models? paper
(30 min) Flexible Operations for Natural Language Deduction paper
6:00 – 6:45Keynote Talk 3: Symbolic Scaffolds for Neural Commonsense Representation and Reasoning
Antoine Bosselut
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6:45 – 7:15Open-Floor Q&A

Schedule for the second Half-day session on August 22 (6:30 am – 9:30 am UTC).

6:00 – 6:30Welcome & Session 1 Summary
6:30 – 8:00Invited and Contributed Talks
(20 mins) Perception, Inference, and Memory: The Trinity of Machine Learning paper
(30 min) ProLinguist: Program Synthesis for Linguistics and NLP paper
(20 min) A Generative-Symbolic Model for Logical Reasoning in NLU paper
(20 min) Multi-hop Reasoning Analysis Based on The Bayesian Probability paper
8:00 – 8:20Break
8:20 – 8:45Open-Floor Q&A
8:45 – 9:00Workshop Closing Statement