W11: Natural Language Interfaces (NLI)

Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Yu Su, Huan Sun, Scott Wen-tau Yih

Live Session: Jul 10 (15:30-00:50 GMT)

Time (PDT)	Event	Speakers
10 Jul, 8:15 AM-8:30 AM	Opening Remarks	Ahmed Awadallah, Yu Su, Huan Sun, Scot Yih
10 Jul, 8:30 AM-9:15 AM	Situated Human-Machine Communication	Joyce Y. Chai
10 Jul, 9:15 AM-9:30 AM	Q&A	Joyce Y. Chai
10 Jul, 9:30 AM-10:15 AM	On the Path to Billion Skills: Turning Documents into Actions	Imed Zitouni
10 Jul, 10:15 AM-10:30 AM	Q&A	Imed Zitouni
10 Jul, 10:30 AM-10:45 AM	Break
10 Jul, 10:45 AM-10:55 AM	Answering Complex Questions by Combining Information from Curated and Extracted Knowledge Bases	Nikita Bhutani, Xinyi Zheng, Kun Qian, Yunyao Li and H. Jagadish
10 Jul, 10:55 AM-11:00 AM	Q&A	Nikita Bhutani, Xinyi Zheng, Kun Qian, Yunyao Li and H. Jagadish
10 Jul, 11:00 AM-11:10 AM	Unnatural Language Processing: Bridging the Gap Between Synthetic and Natural Language Data	Alana Marzoev, Samuel Madden, M. Frans Kaashoek, Michael Cafarella and Jacob Andreas
10 Jul, 11:10 AM-11:15 AM	Q&A	Alana Marzoev, Samuel Madden, M. Frans Kaashoek, Michael Cafarella and Jacob Andreas
10 Jul, 11:15 AM-11:25 AM	Towards Reversal-Based Textual Data Augmentation for NLI Problems with Opposable Classes	Alexey Tarasov
10 Jul, 11:25 AM-11:30 AM	Q&A	Alexey Tarasov
10 Jul, 11:30 AM-12:15 PM	Let's Build an Open Programmable Virtual Assistant with Privacy	Monica Lam
10 Jul, 12:15 PM-12:30 PM	Q&A	Monica Lam
10 Jul, 12:30 PM-1:30 PM	Break
10 Jul, 1:30 PM-2:15 PM	Reflections on Semantic Parsing and Learning from Users	Percy Liang
10 Jul, 2:15 PM-2:30 PM	Q&A	Percy Liang
10 Jul, 2:30 PM-2:40 PM	Examination and Extension of Strategies for Improving Personalized Language Modeling via Interpolation	Liqun Shao, Sahitya Mantravadi, Tom Manzini, Alejandro Buendia, Manon Knoertzer, Soundar Srinivasan and Chris Quirk
10 Jul, 2:40 PM-2:45 PM	Q&A	Liqun Shao, Sahitya Mantravadi, Tom Manzini, Alejandro Buendia, Manon Knoertzer, Soundar Srinivasan and Chris Quirk
10 Jul, 2:45 PM-2:55 PM	A Multi-Modal Agent that Learns Concepts and Conditionals from Natural Language and Demonstrations	Toby Jia-Jun Li, Marissa Radensky, Justin Jia, Kirielle Singarajah, Tom Mitchell and Brad Myers
10 Jul, 2:55 PM-3:00 PM	Q&A	Toby Jia-Jun Li, Marissa Radensky, Justin Jia, Kirielle Singarajah, Tom Mitchell and Brad Myers
10 Jul, 3:00 PM-3:10 PM	Efficient Deployment of Conversational Natural Language Interfaces over Databases	Anthony Colas, Trung Bui, Franck Dernoncourt, Moumita Sinha and Doo Soon Kim
10 Jul, 3:10 PM-3:15 PM	Q&A	Anthony Colas, Trung Bui, Franck Dernoncourt, Moumita Sinha and Doo Soon Kim
10 Jul, 3:15 PM-3:25 PM	Neural Multi-task Text Normalization and Sanitization with Pointer-Generator	Hoang Nguyen and Sandro Cavallari
10 Jul, 3:25 PM-3:30 PM	Q&A	Hoang Nguyen and Sandro Cavallari
10 Jul, 3:30 PM-3:45 PM	Break
10 Jul, 3:45 PM-4:30 PM	Natural Language In A Database Management System	H V Jagadish
10 Jul, 4:30 PM-4:45 PM	Q&A	H V Jagadish
10 Jul, 4:45 PM-5:30 PM	Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training	Luke Zettlemoyer
10 Jul, 5:30 PM-5:45 PM	Q&A	Luke Zettlemoyer
10 Jul, 5:45 PM-5:50 PM	Closing remarks	Ahmed Awadallah, Yu Su, Huan Sun, Scot Yih