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[[nl-uiuc] ] AIIS: Yonatan Bisk - Friday, May 13, 11am

From: "Hockenmaier, Julia" <juliahmr AT illinois.edu>
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Subject: [[nl-uiuc] ] AIIS: Yonatan Bisk - Friday, May 13, 11am
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 03:17:17 +0000
Accept-language: en-US

Title: Natural Language Communication with Computers

Speaker: Yonatan Bisk

When: Fri, May 13, 11am

Where: 3405 Siebel Center

Abstract:

We propose a framework for devising testable algorithms for bridging the communication gap between humans and robots. We begin with a setting in which humans give instructions to robots using unrestricted language commands, with instruction sequences aimed at building complex goal configurations in a blocks world. I will present details of our data-collection effort, and preliminary results on action understanding. Time permitting, I will present new baseline results for flipping the semantic parsing paradigm to address the problem of language generation, where a human performs commands produced by a machine to demonstrate basic two-way communication.

Bio:

Yonatan Bisk received his PhD from UIUC in 2015 under Professor Julia Hockenmaier and is now a Postdoc with Daniel Marcu at ISI.

[[nl-uiuc] ] AIIS: Yonatan Bisk - Friday, May 13, 11am, Hockenmaier, Julia, 05/09/2016