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 – 2:15 | Welcome & Introduction |
2:15 – 3:00 | Keynote Talk 1: Neuro-symbolic models for understanding complex questions Jonathan Berant abstract |
3:00 – 3:45 | Keynote Talk 2: Knowledge-enhanced Text Generation: The Curious Case of Figurative Language and Argumentation Smaranda Muresan abstract |
3:45 – 4:00 | Break |
4:00 – 6:00 | Invited & 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 – 6:45 | Keynote Talk 3: Symbolic Scaffolds for Neural Commonsense Representation and Reasoning Antoine Bosselut abstract |
6:45 – 7:15 | Open-Floor Q&A |
Schedule for the second Half-day session on August 22 (6:30 am – 9:30 am UTC).
6:00 – 6:30 | Welcome & Session 1 Summary |
6:30 – 8:00 | Invited 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 – 8:20 | Break |
8:20 – 8:45 | Open-Floor Q&A |
8:45 – 9:00 | Workshop Closing Statement |