Call for Papers

Some sample questions that we would like to explore are:

• What can natural languages and emergent protocols learn from each other?
• What properties of communication arising in multi-agent systems lead to the same necessary objectives answered by natural language?
• Is natural language the best possible protocol or is it only optimal given the structure of the human brain?
• Which structures promote the emergence of language, as opposed to protocols that are not inherently language like (e.g. hash maps), both in humans as well as in artificial neural nets?
• How can the solution space governed by machine learning algorithms be regulated by natural language without losing efficacy?

We invite submissions from researchers both inside and outside the machine learning community in the following areas:

• multi-agent communication
• grounding emergent protocols to natural language
• compositionality in emergent/natural languages
• linguistic generalization
• learning cognitive skills through language
• language evolution
• deep multi-agent learning

The submitted work should be an extended abstract not exceeding 4 pages (excluding references and supplementary material). The submission should be in pdf format and should follow the style guidelines for NeurIPS 2019 (found here). The review process is double-blind. The submissions should not have been previously published nor have appeared in the NeurIPS main conference. We do however appreciate submitting published work from other non-ML conferences. Work currently under submission to another conference is also welcome. We discourage submitting the same work to other NeurIPS workshops. There will be no formal publication of workshop proceedings. However, the accepted papers will be made available online on the workshop website as non-archival reports to allow submissions to future conferences/journals.

All submitted papers will go under review via the Microsoft CMT website (https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/emecom2019/).

All accepted papers will have a poster session at the workshop. Posters are taped to the wall, should be on lightweight paper, not laminated, no larger than 36W x 48H inches or 90 x 122 cm and in portrait mode. We will provide the tape.

For any queries, reach out to us at emecomworkshop@gmail.com .