Invited Speakers

  • Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen
  • Jonathan Berant, Tel-Aviv University
  • Mark Johnson, Macquarie University
  • Alexander Rush, Cornell Tech
  • Sunita Sarawagi, IIT Bombay
  • Ivan Titov, University of Edinburgh

Schedule [Timezone: UTC+0]

time event
9:00 AM Opening Remarks
9:10 AM Invited Talk
Introduction to Structured Prediction in NLP
Mark Johnson (Macquarie University)
9:50 AM Invited Talk
The Role and Representation of Alignments in Modern Seq2Seq Architectures
Sunita Sarawagi (IIT Bombay)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM Invited Talk
Explainable Fact Checking as Structured Prediction
Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen)
11:40 AM Contributed Talk
On the Discrepancy between Density Estimation and Sequence Generation
(Jason Lee, Dustin Tran, Orhan Firat and Kyunghyun Cho)
11:55 AM Contributed Talk
Improving Joint Training of Inference Networks and Structured Prediction Energy Networks
(Lifu Tu, Richard Yuanzhe Pang and Kevin Gimpel)
12:10 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM Invited Talk
Latent Tree Models for Compositional Generalization
Jonathan Berant (Tel-Aviv University)
1:40 PM Contributed Talk
CopyNext: Explicit Span Copying and Alignment in Sequence to Sequence Models
(Abhinav Singh, Patrick Xia, Guanghui Qin, Mahsa Yarmohammadi and Benjamin Van Durme)
1:55 PM Poster Session
3:30 PM Coffee Break + Poster Session
4:00 PM Invited Talk
Exploring Deep Structured NLP
Alexander Rush (Cornell Tech)
4:40 PM Invited Talk
Interpretability with Differentiable Subset Selection
Ivan Titov (University of Edinburgh)
5:20 PM End