Lucian Popa, IBM Research - Almaden
Title: Task Learning through Language Communication in Embodied Agents
Abstract: Language communication plays an important role in human learning and knowledge acquisition. With the emergence of a new generation of embodied AI agents, empowering these agents to learn directly from human partners becomes increasingly important. In this talk, I will give a brief introduction to action learning by following natural language instructions. I will talk about some work done in my lab on interactive task learning where humans can teach agents new tasks through natural language communication and action demonstration. I will highlight the role of physical causality in language grounding to perception and action and discuss cooperative principles in communication grounding between humans and agents.
Session Chair: Yunyao Li, IBM Research - Almaden
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Verena Weber, Enrico Piovano and Melanie Bradford. It is better to Verify: Semi-Supervised Learning with a human in the loop for large-scale NLU models
Natraj Raman, Sameena Shah, Tucker Balch and Manuela Veloso. ViziTex: Interactive Visual Sense-Making of Text Corpora
Saman Enayati, Ziyu Yang, Slobodan Vucetic and Benjamin Lu. A Visualization Approach for Rapid Labeling of Clinical Notes for Smoking Status Extraction
Saurav Sahay, Eda Okur, Nagib Hakim and Lama Nachman. Semi-supervised Interactive Intent Labeling
Session Chair: Slobodan Vucetic, Temple University
Jan-Christoph Klie, Richard Eckart de Castilho and Iryna Gurevych. Human-In-The-Loop Entity Linking for Low Resource Domains
Soya Park. Bridging Multi-disciplinary Collaboration Challenges in ML Development via Domain Knowledge Elicitation
Session Chair: Slobodan Vucetic, Temple University
Thomas Lippincott and Ben Van Durme. Active learning and negative evidence for language identification
Peter Griggs, Cagatay Demiralp and Sajjadur Rahman. Towards integrated, interactive, and extensible text data analytics with Leam
Karthik Muthuraman, Frederick Reiss, Hong Xu, Bryan Cutler and Zachary Eichenberger. Data Cleaning Tools for Token Classification Tasks
Tatiana Tsygankova, Francesca Marini, Stephen Mayhew and Dan Roth. Building Low-Resource NER Models Using Non-Speaker Annotations
Kayla Duskin, Shivam Sharma, Ji Young Yun, Emily Saldanha and Dustin Arendt. Evaluating and Explaining Natural Language Generation with GenX
Session Chair: Lucian Popa, IBM Research - Almaden
Title: Optimizing Human-AI Teams
Abstract: While some AI systems operate in an autonomous mode, many AI systems are deployed in an advisory capacity where a human (eg, loan-officer, judge or doctor) is responsible for the final decision. Should such collaborative AI system be trained in the same way as autonomous AIs, e.g., by solely optimizing their accuracy? We answer "No" – instead arguing for a human-centered AI (HCAI) approach, that makes fundamentally different demands: complementary performance instead of just accuracy, explanations that increase appropriate reliance instead of mere trust, and controls for accepting user feedback. We discuss several novel methods for achieving these goals, present the results of user studies which challenge current directions in explanation generation, and sketch directions for future research.
Session Chair: Eduard Dragut, Temple University
Dustin Arendt, Zhuanyi Shaw, Prasha Shrestha, Ellyn Ayton, Maria Glenski and Svitlana Volkova. CrossCheck: Rapid, Reproducible, and Interpretable Model Evaluation
Raymond Finzel, Esha Singh, Martin Michalowski, Maria Gini and Serguei Pakhomov. Everyday Living Artificial Intelligence Hub
William Lane, Mat Bettinson and Steven Bird. A Computational Model for Interactive Transcription
Rebecca Iglesias-Flores, Megha Mishra, Ajay Patel, Akanksha Malhotra, Reno Kriz, Martha Palmer and Chris Callison-Burch. TopGuNN: Fast NLP Training Data Augmentation using Large Corpora
Session Chair: Eduard Dragut, Temple University
Session Chair: Yunyao Li, IBM Research - Almaden