Participants
Organizers
Organizers
- Niranjan Balasubramanian, Stony Brook University
- Kevin Gimpel, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Keynote Speaker
Keynote Speaker
- Andrew S. Gordon, University of Southern California, "Generating Creative Narratives About a Baseball Player, a Train, and a Heart"
Participants (* denotes speaker)
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"