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

"From Words to Actions" : NAACL-HLT 2012 Workshop on Semantic
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....
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 goldwas1-AT-illinois.edu
Regina Barzilay regina-AT-csail.mit.edu
Dan Roth danr-AT-illinois.edu
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Raymond Mooney
Luke Zettlemoyer
Jacob Eisenstein
Alexander Koller
Percy Liang
Wei Lu
Nick Roy
Jeffrey Mark Siskind
Jason Weston