Schedule

Workshop date: August 5, 2021. All times are shown in EST (GMT-4).

9:00 - 9:15 Opening Remarks by Zhijing Jin (organizer) [YouTube video]

9:15 - 10:15 Invited Speaker: Jason Weston (Research Scientist@Facebook AI & Visiting Research Professor@NYU) "Negative Conversation Detection and Positive Conversation Generation" [YouTube video]

10:30 - 12:00 Poster Session 1 [The first 30min (10:30-11) will consist of lightening talks for each poster on Zoom. We will then move to GatherTown for a live poster session.]

12:00 - 13:00 Invited Speaker: Yulia Tsvetkov (Assitant Professor@University of Washington) "Towards Factual and Reliable Language Generation" [YouTube video]

13:30 - 14:30 Invited Speaker: Ndapa Nakashole (Assistant Professor@UCSD) "NLP in Education & Healthcare"

17:30 - 19:00 Poster Session 2 [The first ~30min (17:30-18) will consist of lightening talks for each poster on Zoom. We will then move to GatherTown for a live poster session.]

19:00 - 20:30 Panel Discussion by Yejin Choi (Professor@University of Washington), Pascale Fung (Professor@HKUST), Inioluwa Deborah Raji (Research fellow@Mozilla), Baobao Zhang (Assistant professor@Syracuse University). Moderated by Maarten Sap (organizer). [YouTube video]

20:30 - 20:45 Closing Remarks by Shrimai Prabhumoye (organizer) [YouTube video]

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Registration

We are happy to be able to offer sponsorships to waive registration for our workshop, which includes access to the entire ACL conference. However, we aim to use the limited funds to broaden the participation. We encourage you to apply for a waiver only if you would not otherwise be able to attend the conference.

If you need any help on the registration, please fill in this fee waiver request form (If you don't have a paper in our workshop, you can simply mark "paper ID" as "N/A". )