WLGR 2017 - 1st Workshop on Language Grounding for Robotics

The 1st workshop on Language Grounding for Robotics at ACL 2017 (https://robonlp2017.github.io/) seeks submissions on embodied, task-oriented language grounding. The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:
Aligning and Translating Language to Situated Actions
Simulated and Real World Situations
Instructions for Navigation
Instructions for Articulation
Instructions for Manipulation
Skill Learning via Interactive Dialogue
Language Learning via Grounded Dialogue
Language Generation for Embodied Tasks
Grounded Knowledge Representations
Mapping Language to the World
Grounded Reinforcement Learning
Language-based Games for Grounding
Structured and Deep Learning Models for Embodied Language
New Datasets for Embodied Language
Better Evaluation Metrics for Embodied Language
Important Dates:
Deadline for submission: 21 April 2017
Notification of acceptance: 19 May 2017
Deadline for camera-ready version: 26 May 2017
Early registration deadline (ACL'17): TBA
Workshop Date: 3 August 2017
Invited Speakers:
Regina Barzilay, MIT
Joyce Chai, MSU
Dieter Fox, Univ of Washington
Raia Hadsell, Google DeepMind
Hadas Kress-Gazit, Cornell
Percy Liang, Stanford
Ray Mooney, UT Austin
Nicholas Roy, MIT
Stefanie Tellex, Brown
Jason Weston, Facebook AI Research
Steering Committee:
Julia Hockenmaier, UIUC
Ray Mooney, UT Austin
Luke Zettlemoyer, Univ of Washington
Organizers:
Mohit Bansal, UNC Chapel Hill
Cynthia Matuszek, UMBC
Jacob Andreas, UC Berkeley
Yoav Artzi, Cornell
Yonatan Bisk, ISI, USC
Contact email: robonlp2017-organizers-AT-googlegroups.com
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Submission Instructions:
We invite anonymized submissions of up to 4 pages (with unlimited pages for references). Please use the ACL 2017 style files, available at http://acl2017.org/calls/papers/.
The submission website is at: https://www.softconf.com/acl2017/robonlp/.
Presentation Format:
For each accepted paper, we will decide oral or poster presentation, based on reviewer suggestions and the overall workshop schedule.
Best Paper Awards:
Selected paper(s) will be recognized with a best paper award.