Schedule

Morning

8.55 - 9:00 Introductory remarks

9.00 - 9.40 Invited Talk 1: Ted Gibson (MIT) - language and cognition

9.45 - 10.00 Contributed Talk 1 (Mina Lee) - Learning Autocomplete Systems as a Communication Game

10.00 - 10.30 Coffee break / Poster Session

10.30 - 11.10 Invited Talk 2: Noga Zaslavsky (MIT) - Information-theoretic principles in semantic and pragmatic communication

11.15 - 11.30 Contributed Talk 2 (Alexander I Cowen-Rivers) - Emergent Communication with World Models

11.30 - 12.00 Extended Poster Session

12.00 - 14.00 Lunch break

Afternoon

14.00 - 14.40 Invited Talk 3: Jason Eisner (JHU/Microsoft Semantic Machines) - connection between formal and natural language

14.45 - 15.00 Contributed Talk 3 (Adam Lerer) - Improving Policies via Search in Cooperative Partially Observable Games

15.00 - 15.40 Invited Talk 4: Jacob Andreas (MIT/Microsoft Semantic Machines) - Compositionality in language and other representational systems

15.45 - 16.15 Coffee break / Poster Session

16.15 - 16.55 Invited Talk 5: Stefan Lee (OSU) - multi-agent dialog / multi-modal communication

17.00 - 17.55 Panel Discussion (Ted Gibson, Noga Zaslavsky, Jacob Andreas, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Jason Eisner, Stefan Lee)

17.55 - 18.00 Closing remarks