<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b> </font></font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"> <span class="gmail_default">Wednesday, March 2nd</span> at<b> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">11:<span class="gmail_default">30</span> am CT</span></b></font></font></font></div><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(80,0,80);margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><br></span></b></font></font></font></p><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Where: </b><font color="#500050"><span class="gmail-il">Talk</span> will be given </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-weight:bold"> </font><font color="#000000">at</font></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <span class="gmail-il">TTIC</span>, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b><span style="color:black"> </span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where:</b> </font></font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">Zoom Virtual <span class="gmail-il">Talk</span> (</font><b><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bA-GXT9mRnu7oUJXbbBKXA" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">register in advance here</font></a></b><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">)</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font color="#000000"><b>Who: </b> </font><font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> <span class="gmail_default"> </span><span class="gmail_default"></span></font></font></font>Alane Suhr, Cornell University</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default"></span>Title: <span class="gmail_default"> </span></b>Reasoning and Learning in Interactive Natural Language Systems<br><br><b>Abstract<span class="gmail_default">: </span></b>Systems that support expressive, situated natural language interactions are essential for expanding access to complex computing systems, such as robots and databases, to non-experts. Reasoning and learning in such natural language interactions is a challenging open problem. For example, resolving sentence meaning requires reasoning not only about word meaning, but also about the interaction context, including the history of the interaction and the situated environment. In addition, the sequential dynamics that arise between user and system in and across interactions make learning from static data, i.e., supervised data, both challenging and ineffective. However, these same interaction dynamics result in ample opportunities for learning from implicit and explicit feedback that arises naturally in the interaction. This lays the foundation for systems that continually learn, improve, and adapt their language use through interaction, without additional annotation effort. In this <span class="gmail-il">talk</span>, I will focus on these challenges and opportunities. First, I will describe our work on modeling dependencies between language meaning and interaction context when mapping natural language in interaction to executable code. In the second part of the <span class="gmail-il">talk</span>, I will describe our work on language understanding and generation in collaborative environments, focusing on learning to recover from errors and on continual learning from explicit and implicit user feedback.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Bio<span class="gmail_default">: </span></font></b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Alane</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Suhr</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University, advised by Yoav Artzi. Her research spans natural language processing, machine learning, and computer vision, with a focus on building systems that participate and continually learn in situated natural language interactions with human users. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Alane</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">’s work has been recognized by paper awards at ACL and NAACL, and has been supported by fellowships and grants, including an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a Facebook PhD Fellowship, and research awards from AI2, ParlAI, and AWS. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Alane</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> has also co-organized multiple workshops and tutorials appearing at NeurIPS, EMNLP, NAACL, and ACL. Previously, </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Alane</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> received a BS in Computer Science and Engineering as an Eminence Fellow at the Ohio State University.</span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Host:<b> <a href="mailto:klivescu@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Karen Livescu</a></b></font></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 6:13 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default"></span></b><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b> </font></font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"> <span class="gmail_default">Wednesday, March 2nd</span> at<b> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">11:<span class="gmail_default">30</span> am CT</span></b></font></font></font></div><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(80,0,80);margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><br></span></b></font></font></font></p><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Where: </b><font color="#500050">Talk will be given </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-weight:bold"> </font><font color="#000000">at</font></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b><span style="color:black"> </span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where:</b> </font></font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">Zoom Virtual Talk (</font><b><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bA-GXT9mRnu7oUJXbbBKXA" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">register in advance here</font></a></b><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">)</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font color="#000000"><b>Who: </b> </font><font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> <span class="gmail_default"> </span><span class="gmail_default"></span></font></font></font>Alane Suhr, Cornell University</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default"></span>Title: <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> </span></b>Reasoning and Learning in Interactive Natural Language Systems<br><br><b>Abstract<span class="gmail_default">: </span></b>Systems that support expressive, situated natural language interactions are essential for expanding access to complex computing systems, such as robots and databases, to non-experts. Reasoning and learning in such natural language interactions is a challenging open problem. For example, resolving sentence meaning requires reasoning not only about word meaning, but also about the interaction context, including the history of the interaction and the situated environment. In addition, the sequential dynamics that arise between user and system in and across interactions make learning from static data, i.e., supervised data, both challenging and ineffective. However, these same interaction dynamics result in ample opportunities for learning from implicit and explicit feedback that arises naturally in the interaction. This lays the foundation for systems that continually learn, improve, and adapt their language use through interaction, without additional annotation effort. In this talk, I will focus on these challenges and opportunities. First, I will describe our work on modeling dependencies between language meaning and interaction context when mapping natural language in interaction to executable code. In the second part of the talk, I will describe our work on language understanding and generation in collaborative environments, focusing on learning to recover from errors and on continual learning from explicit and implicit user feedback.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Bio<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">: </span></font></b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Alane</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Suhr</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University, advised by Yoav Artzi. Her research spans natural language processing, machine learning, and computer vision, with a focus on building systems that participate and continually learn in situated natural language interactions with human users. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Alane</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">’s work has been recognized by paper awards at ACL and NAACL, and has been supported by fellowships and grants, including an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a Facebook PhD Fellowship, and research awards from AI2, ParlAI, and AWS. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Alane</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> has also co-organized multiple workshops and tutorials appearing at NeurIPS, EMNLP, NAACL, and ACL. Previously, </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Alane</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> received a BS in Computer Science and Engineering as an Eminence Fellow at the Ohio State University.</span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Host:<b> <a href="mailto:klivescu@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Karen Livescu</a></b></font></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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