Participants

Organizers

Keynote Speaker

  • Andrew S. Gordon, University of Southern California, "Generating Creative Narratives About a Baseball Player, a Train, and a Heart"

Participants (* denotes speaker)

  • *Larry Birnbaum, Northwestern, "Narrative Coherence and Semantic Structure"
  • *Jamie Brew, Botnik Studios, "Slow Markov songwriting: A Keynote concert"
  • Mingda Chen, TTIC
  • Yang Chen, UChicago
  • *Elizabeth Clark, U Washington, "Collaborative Story Generation: Modeling and Design Considerations for Machine-in-the-Loop Creative Writing Systems"
  • Aron Culotta, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Zhongtian Dai, TTIC
  • Xiaoan Ding, UChicago
  • Doug Downey, Northwestern
  • Dheeru Dua, UC Irvine
  • Lingyu Gao, TTIC
  • Itika Gupta, UIC
  • *Kris Hammond, Northwestern, "The Difference between Words, Text, Language and Stories"
  • Michael Heilman, Civis Analytics
  • Jack Huang, UChicago
  • *Mohit Iyyer, UMass Amherst, "Generating QA Dialogs from Documents"
  • Jun Seok Kang, Stony Brook University
  • Heeyoung Kwon, Stony Brook University
  • Zhen Li, HKU/TTIC
  • Karen Livescu, TTIC
  • Robert Logan, UC Irvine
  • David McAllester, TTIC
  • Richard Pang, UChicago/TTIC
  • Ankita Pasad, TTIC
  • *Mark Riedl, Georgia Tech, "Toward Interactive Improvisational Narrative Generation in Open Worlds"
  • *Melissa Roemmele, SDL, "The Role of Unpredictability in Automated Assistance for Creative Writing"
  • *Sameer Singh, UC Irvine, "On Knowledge Graph Embeddings, with Application to Generation"
  • Karl Stratos, TTIC
  • Lifu Tu, TTIC
  • Theja Tulabandhula, UIC
  • *Sam Wiseman, Harvard, "Learning Controllable and Interpretable Generation Models with Neural Templates"