SIAC 2012 - NAACL-HLT 2012 Workshop on Semantic Interpretation in an Actionable Context

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Deadline: April 02, 2012 | Date: June 08, 2012

Venue/Country: Quebec, Canada

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Call For Papers - CFP

Interpretation in an Actionable Context

June 8, 2012

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/words2actions/

We are soliciting submissions for NAACL-HLT 2012 Workshop on Semantic

Interpretation in an Actionable Context (SIAC-2012).

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

Effective and seamless Human-Computer interaction using natural

language is arguably one of the major challenges of natural language

processing and artificial intelligence in general. Making significant

progress in developing natural language capabilities that support this

level of interaction has countless applications and is bound to

attract many researchers from several AI fields: from robotics to

games to the social sciences.

From the natural language processing perspective the problem is often

formulated as a translation task: mapping between natural language

input and a logical output language that can be executed in the domain

of interest. Unlike shallow approaches for semantic interpretation,

which provide an incomplete or underspecified interpretation of the

natural language input, the output of a formal semantic interpreter is

expected to provide complete meaning representation that can be

executed directly by a computer system. Examples of such systems

include robotic control, database access, game playing and more.

Current approaches to this task take a data driven approach, in which

a learning algorithm is given a set of natural language sentences as

input and their corresponding logical meaning representation and

learns a statistical semantic parser: a set of parameterized rules

mapping lexical items and syntactic patterns to a logical formula.

In recent years this framework was challenged by an exciting line of

research, advocating that semantic interpretation should not be

studied in isolation, but rather in the context of the external

environment (or computer system) which provides the semantic context

for interpretation. This line of research comprises several

directions, focusing on grounded semantic representations, flexible

semantic interpretation models, and alternative learning protocols

driven by indirect supervision signals.

This progress has contributed to expanding the scope of semantic

interpretation, introduced new domains and tasks and revealed that it

is possible to make progress in this direction with reduced manual

effort. In particular, it resulted in a wide range of models, learning

protocols, learning tasks, and semantic formalisms that, while clearly

related, are not directly comparable and understood under a single

framework.

The goal of this workshop is to provide researchers interested in the

field with an opportunity to exchange ideas, discuss other

perspectives, and formulate a shared vision for this research

direction.

SUBMISSION:

We invite submissions that explore this field from multiple,

theoretical and experimental, perspectives on, but not limited to, the

following topics:

? Indirect supervision protocols for semantic interpretation

? Modeling and representing an external world

? Incorporating domain knowledge into semantic inference

? Interactive language interpretation

? New domains and tasks

We invite both long submissions (8 pages + 2 pages for references)

describing complete works, position and survey papers, and short

submissions (4 pages) describing work in progress, new datasets and

tasks. We also invite abstract submissions (1-2 pages) describing

previously published work.

Submissions should follow the NAACL'12 formatting instructions.

Submissions must be anonymized.

Complete instructions and style files are available at:

http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php

Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/SIAC2012/

IMPORTANT DATES:

? April 2: Paper due date

? April 23: Notification of acceptance

? May 04: Camera ready deadline

? June 8: Words-to-Actions Workshop

ORGANIZATION

Dan Goldwasser goldwas1illinois.edu

Regina Barzilay reginacsail.mit.edu

Dan Roth danrillinois.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Raymond Mooney

Luke Zettlemoyer

Jacob Eisenstein

Alexander Koller

Percy Liang

Wei Lu

Nick Roy

Jeffrey Mark Siskind

Jason Weston