<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;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"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> Monday</font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">, October 24th</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"> at</font><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">11:30 am CT</font></span></b></font></font></div><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;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><font color="#500050">Where: </font><font color="#000000"> </font></b><font color="#000000">Talk will be given </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-weight:bold"> </font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">at</font></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;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 color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;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" color="#000000"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b> </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"><b style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Virtually:</b><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"> via Panopto </span><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8427a25d-71ee-4e3f-8d10-af32012a1053" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(26,115,232);font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">(<b>livestream</b></a><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><br></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 style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b>Who: </b> </font><font color="#500050" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050"> </font></font></font></font></font>Yoav Artzi, Cornell University</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"><br></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><div><p style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Title: </b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Interaction and Natural Language Learning</span><br></p><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Abstract: </b>This talk focuses on the challenges and opportunities that interactions provide for natural language learning. It is divided into two parts. First, I will show how collaborative interactions enable continual learning, where agentive systems improve over time through interaction. I will describe an interactive game-like environment that instantiates collaborative interactions with natural language coordination, and show how it creates a contextual bandit learning scenario for language production (i.e., generation). I will also briefly show how this formulation generalizes to language comprehension. In the second part, I will discuss language-conditioned reinforcement learning (RL). Although the pairing of natural language and RL is promising for both research and application, it is a research avenue that remains challenging to pursue. I will describe a new approach for language-conditioned RL benchmarking that strikes a balance between research accessibility and retaining the complexities and nuances of natural language.</font></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><div><br></div><div><b>Bio: </b><i>Yoav</i><i> Artzi</i> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Cornell Tech at Cornell University. His research focuses on developing learning methods for natural language understanding and generation in automated interactive systems. He received an NSF CAREER award, and his work was acknowledged by awards and honorable mentions at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and IROS. Yoav holds a B.Sc. from Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. </div><div><br></div></font></span></div><b>Host: <a href="mailto:klivescu@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Karen Livescu</a></b></div><div><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">***********************************************************************************</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">For more information on the </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">colloquium</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> series or to subscribe to the mailing list, please see </span><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><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 Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 2:36 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">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 dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;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"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> Monday</font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">, October 24th</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"> at</font><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">11:30 am CT</font></span></b></font></font></div><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;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><font color="#500050">Where: </font><font color="#000000"> </font></b><font color="#000000">Talk will be given </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-weight:bold"> </font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">at</font></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;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 color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;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" color="#000000"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b> </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"><b style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Virtually:</b><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"> via Panopto </span><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8427a25d-71ee-4e3f-8d10-af32012a1053" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(26,115,232);font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">(<b>livestream</b></a><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><br></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 style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b>Who: </b> </font><font color="#500050" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050"> </font></font></font></font></font>Yoav Artzi, Cornell University</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"><br></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><div><p style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Title: </b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Interaction and Natural Language Learning</span><br></p><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Abstract: </b>This talk focuses on the challenges and opportunities that interactions provide for natural language learning. It is divided into two parts. First, I will show how collaborative interactions enable continual learning, where agentive systems improve over time through interaction. I will describe an interactive game-like environment that instantiates collaborative interactions with natural language coordination, and show how it creates a contextual bandit learning scenario for language production (i.e., generation). I will also briefly show how this formulation generalizes to language comprehension. In the second part, I will discuss language-conditioned reinforcement learning (RL). Although the pairing of natural language and RL is promising for both research and application, it is a research avenue that remains challenging to pursue. I will describe a new approach for language-conditioned RL benchmarking that strikes a balance between research accessibility and retaining the complexities and nuances of natural language.</font></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><div><br></div><div><b>Bio: </b><i>Yoav</i><i> Artzi</i> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Cornell Tech at Cornell University. His research focuses on developing learning methods for natural language understanding and generation in automated interactive systems. He received an NSF CAREER award, and his work was acknowledged by awards and honorable mentions at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and IROS. Yoav holds a B.Sc. from Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. </div><div><br></div></font></span></div><b>Host: <a href="mailto:klivescu@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Karen Livescu</a></b></div><div><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">***********************************************************************************</div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">For more information on the </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">colloquium</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> series or to subscribe to the mailing list, please see </span><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><br></div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="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 Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 10:30 AM 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 dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div><div><div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;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"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> Monday</font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">, October 24th</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"> at</font><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">11:30 am CT</font></span></b></font></font></div><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;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><font color="#500050">Where: </font><font color="#000000"> </font></b><font color="#000000">Talk will be given </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-weight:bold"> </font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">at</font></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;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 color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;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" color="#000000"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b> </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"><b style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Virtually:</b><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"> via Panopto </span><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8427a25d-71ee-4e3f-8d10-af32012a1053" style="color:rgb(26,115,232);font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap" target="_blank">(<b>livestream</b></a><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><br></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 style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b>Who: </b> </font><font color="#500050" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050"> </font></font></font></font></font>Yoav Artzi, Cornell University</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"><br></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><div><p style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Title: </b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Interaction and Natural Language Learning</span><br></p><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Abstract: </b>This talk focuses on the challenges and opportunities that interactions provide for natural language learning. It is divided into two parts. First, I will show how collaborative interactions enable continual learning, where agentive systems improve over time through interaction. I will describe an interactive game-like environment that instantiates collaborative interactions with natural language coordination, and show how it creates a contextual bandit learning scenario for language production (i.e., generation). I will also briefly show how this formulation generalizes to language comprehension. In the second part, I will discuss language-conditioned reinforcement learning (RL). Although the pairing of natural language and RL is promising for both research and application, it is a research avenue that remains challenging to pursue. I will describe a new approach for language-conditioned RL benchmarking that strikes a balance between research accessibility and retaining the complexities and nuances of natural language.</font></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><div><br></div><div><b>Bio: </b><i>Yoav</i><i> Artzi</i> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Cornell Tech at Cornell University. His research focuses on developing learning methods for natural language understanding and generation in automated interactive systems. He received an NSF CAREER award, and his work was acknowledged by awards and honorable mentions at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and IROS. Yoav holds a B.Sc. from Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. </div><div><br></div></font></span></div><b>Host: <a href="mailto:klivescu@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Karen Livescu</a></b></div><div><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">***********************************************************************************</div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">For more information on the </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">colloquium</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> series or to subscribe to the mailing list, please see </span><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><br></div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><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 Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 2:36 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">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 dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div><div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;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"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> Monday</font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">, October 24th</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"> at</font><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">11:30 am CT</font></span></b></font></font></div><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;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><font color="#500050">Where: </font><font color="#000000"> </font></b><font color="#000000">Talk will be given </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-weight:bold"> </font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">at</font></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;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 color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;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" color="#000000"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b> </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"><b style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Virtually:</b><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"> via Panopto </span><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8427a25d-71ee-4e3f-8d10-af32012a1053" style="color:rgb(26,115,232);font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap" target="_blank">(<b>livestream</b></a><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><br></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 style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b>Who: </b> </font><font color="#500050" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050"> </font></font></font></font></font>Yoav Artzi, Cornell University</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"><br></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><div><p style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Title: </b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Interaction and Natural Language Learning</span><br></p><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Abstract: </b>This talk focuses on the challenges and opportunities that interactions provide for natural language learning. It is divided into two parts. First, I will show how collaborative interactions enable continual learning, where agentive systems improve over time through interaction. I will describe an interactive game-like environment that instantiates collaborative interactions with natural language coordination, and show how it creates a contextual bandit learning scenario for language production (i.e., generation). I will also briefly show how this formulation generalizes to language comprehension. In the second part, I will discuss language-conditioned reinforcement learning (RL). Although the pairing of natural language and RL is promising for both research and application, it is a research avenue that remains challenging to pursue. I will describe a new approach for language-conditioned RL benchmarking that strikes a balance between research accessibility and retaining the complexities and nuances of natural language.</font></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><div><br></div><div><b>Bio: </b><i>Yoav</i><i> Artzi</i> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Cornell Tech at Cornell University. His research focuses on developing learning methods for natural language understanding and generation in automated interactive systems. He received an NSF CAREER award, and his work was acknowledged by awards and honorable mentions at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and IROS. Yoav holds a B.Sc. from Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. </div><div><br></div></font></span></div><b>Host: <a href="mailto:klivescu@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Karen Livescu</a></b></div><div><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">***********************************************************************************</div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">For more information on the </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">colloquium</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> series or to subscribe to the mailing list, please see </span><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><br></div><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><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 Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 1:41 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">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><div><div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;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"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> Monday</font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">, October 24th</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"> at</font><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">11:30 am CT</font></span></b></font></font></div><p style="font-size:small;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;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 style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><font color="#500050">Where: </font><font color="#000000"> </font></b><font color="#000000">Talk will be given </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-weight:bold"> </font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">at</font></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in;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 color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in;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" color="#000000"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;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="font-size:small;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"><b style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Virtually:</b><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"> via Panopto </span><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8427a25d-71ee-4e3f-8d10-af32012a1053" style="color:rgb(26,115,232);font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap" target="_blank">(<b>livestream</b></a><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;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="font-size:small;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 style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b>Who: </b> </font><font color="#500050" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050"> </font></font></font></font></font>Yoav Artzi, Cornell University</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;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"><br></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><div><p style="font-size:small;color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Title: </b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Interaction and Natural Language Learning</span><br></p><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Abstract: </b>This talk focuses on the challenges and opportunities that interactions provide for natural language learning. It is divided into two parts. First, I will show how collaborative interactions enable continual learning, where agentive systems improve over time through interaction. I will describe an interactive game-like environment that instantiates collaborative interactions with natural language coordination, and show how it creates a contextual bandit learning scenario for language production (i.e., generation). I will also briefly show how this formulation generalizes to language comprehension. In the second part, I will discuss language-conditioned reinforcement learning (RL). Although the pairing of natural language and RL is promising for both research and application, it is a research avenue that remains challenging to pursue. I will describe a new approach for language-conditioned RL benchmarking that strikes a balance between research accessibility and retaining the complexities and nuances of natural language.</font></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><div><br></div><div><span><b>Bio: </b><i>Yoav</i></span><i> <span>Artzi</span></i> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Cornell Tech at Cornell University. His research focuses on developing learning methods for natural language understanding and generation in automated interactive systems. He received an NSF CAREER award, and his work was acknowledged by awards and honorable mentions at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and IROS. <span>Yoav</span> holds a B.Sc. from Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. </div><div><br></div></font></span></div><b>Host: <a href="mailto:klivescu@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Karen Livescu</a></b></div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">***********************************************************************************</div></div></div></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">For more information on the </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>colloquium</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> series or to subscribe to the mailing list, please see </span><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/<span>colloquium</span>.php</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><br></div><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><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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