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NaLoMa 2020: Natural Logic meets Machine Learning, Waltham MA (U.S.A.)

NATURAL LOGIC MEETS MACHINE LEARNING (NALOMA'2020)
Workshop at NASSLLI 2020
July 11-17, 2020
Brandeis University, Waltham MA USA
URL: https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/naloma20/

AIMS

NAtural LOgic Meets MAchine Learning (NALOMA) is the first workshop of its 
kind, aiming to bridge the gap between Machine Learning and Natural Logic. 
It will take place from July 11-July 17, 2020, during the 9th North 
American Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI) at 
Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Recent models of Natural Language Inference (NLI) have made considerable 
progress in the last couple of years and have achieved performance at 
nearly human-level. Even though this last statement might still be an 
exaggeration, it is indeed true that NLI models are capable of doing more 
things than we thought they would some years ago. On the other hand, 
research on symbolic methods for NLI has not been fully abandoned. One 
such area that is still flourishing is research on Natural Logic. There is 
actually renewed interest in monotonicity inference, and connections with 
theorem provers and tableau systems from standard areas of logic.

Within this context, the aim of this workshop is to bring together 
researchers working in both Natural Logic and Machine Learning approaches 
to NLI, initiating a discussion with the two sets of researchers that have 
been largely unconnected up to now.

CALL FOR PAPERS


We invite submissions on topics included but not limited to:


     reasoning systems that integrate logic-based methods with neural
networks;

     creation, evaluation, and criticism of NLI datasets;

     training data augmentation using logic;

     explainable models of NLI;

     opening the ?black box? of machine learning in NLI;

     probabilistic semantics in connection with NLI;

     downstream applications of NLI;

     comparison and contrast between human-level and machine-level work in
NLI;

     linguistics semantics and contemporary NLI.

     dialogue systems, QA and information retrieval systems that use
(natural) logic and machine learning.


We accept two types of submission:


     Archival (long or short) papers should report on complete, original and
unpublished research. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings and will appear in the ACL anthology.

     Extended abstracts may report on work in progress or work that was
recently published/accepted at a different venue. Extended abstracts will
not be included in the workshop proceedings. Thus, the unpublished work
will retain the status and can be submitted to another venue. Extended
abstracts will be linked at the workshop webpage.


Both accepted papers and extended abstracts are expected to be presented at
the workshop. Extended abstracts will be presented as talks or posters if
selected by the program committee.


Authors must submit non-anonymized extended abstracts or papers before
April 15. Both extended abstracts and papers must be formatted according to
the ACL style. The extended abstracts should not contain an abstract
section and may consist of up to 2 pages of content, plus unlimited
references. Short and long papers may consist of up to 4 and 8 pages of
content, respectively, plus unlimited references. Camera-ready versions of
papers will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers?
comments can be taken into account.


Both extended abstracts and follow-up papers should be submitted via
EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlmml20



INVITED SPEAKERS


Lauri Karttunen, Stanford University

Ellie Pavlick, Brown University

Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh



IMPORTANT DATES


Submission of papers & extended abstracts: April 15

Notification: May 1

Final versions due: June 1

Workshop: July 11-17




PROGRAM COMMITTEE


Lawrence S. Moss (Chair), Indiana University

Lasha Abziniadize, University of Groningen

Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, University of Gothenburg

Hai Hu, Indiana University

Thomas Icard, Stanford University

Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli, University of Konstanz

Hitomi Yanaka, Riken



CONTACT:  naloma20@easychair.org


URL: https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/naloma20/
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