Schedule
There will be two invited talks, one position paper and four technical papers presented in regular talks, one irregular talk, five brief poster teaser talks and a poster session. See Accepted papers for details.
9:00 Welcome
9:03-10:00 Invited talk 1
Livia Polanyi, Consulting Professor in Linguistics at Stanford University
"Reflections on Verbal Art 40 years after the fact"
10:00-10:30 Regular talk 1
"A Tale of Two Cultures: Bringing Literary Analysis and Computational Linguistics Together"
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Regular talks 2, 3, 4
"Recognition of Classical Arabic Poems"
"Tradition and Modernity in 20th Century Chinese Poetry"
"Linguistic Resources and Topic Models for the Analysis of Persian Poems"
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:00 Invited talk 2
Mark Riedl, Assistant Professor at School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech
"Intelligent Narrative Generation: From Cognition to Crowdsourcing"
15:00-15:30 Poster teaser talks
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:30 Poster session
16:30-17:00 Regular talk 5
"From high heels to weed attics: a syntactic investigation of chick lit and literature"
17:00-17:30 Irregular talk
(The authors of "Identification of Speakers in Novels" will bring their findings to the workshop.)
17:30 Farewell
About the Invited Speakers
Livia Polanyi joined Stanford University in 2012 as Consulting Professor of Linguistics after leaving Microsoft Corporation where she was a Principal Researcher at Bing working on applications of formal theories of discourse structure to problems in Search. She also taught at the University of Amsterdam, Rice University and the University of Tel Aviv and held scientist positions in computational linguistics at BBN Labs, Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Labs and Powerset Corporation where she was the first member of the technical team. Professor Polanyi's research focusses on the structure of language above the sentence and she has published work in theoretical, socio and computational linguistics as well as in literary theory, anthropology, economics and political science. Currently she is working on extensions of formal concepts developed to account for discourse interpretability despite discontinuity to foundational problems in music, dance and conversation. She is also a poet.
Mark Riedl is an Assistant Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing and director of the Entertainment Intelligence Lab. Dr. Riedl's research focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, and storytelling. The principle research question Dr. Riedl addresses through his research is: how can intelligent computational systems reason about and autonomously create engaging experiences for users of virtual worlds and computer games. Dr. Riedl earned a PhD degree in 2004 from North Carolina State University, where he developed intelligent systems for generating stories and managing interactive user experiences in computer games. From 2004 to 2007, Dr. Riedl was a Research Scientist at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies where he researched and developed interactive, narrative-based training systems. Dr. Riedl joined the Georgia Tech College of Computing in 2007 and in 2011 he received a DARPA Young Faculty Award for his work on artificial intelligence, narrative, and virtual worlds. His research is supported by the NSF, DARPA, the U.S. Army, and Disney.