Singapore Symposium on Natural Language processing is happening in a few hours!

[Kokil Jaidka]

Dear all

A gentle reminder about (virtual) SSNLP beginning in less than twelve hours (7.10pm EST), with a host of distinguished speakers. Please do forward this invitation to your circles, colleagues, and students because it's free, and anyone can join from anywhere on the planet -- just make sure you're registered at https://www.ssnlp.org/

Sending on behalf of Jing Jiang, Gangeshwar Krishnamurthy, and Wenqiang Lei.

 

DECEMBER 11, 2020 (SGT)	DECEMBER 11, 2020 (SGT)
08:10 - 08:25	Welcome and Opening Remarks
08:25 - 09:00	Knowledge-Robust and Multimodally-Grounded NLP speaker:   Mohit Bansal   ::   chaired by:   Soujanya Poria
09:00 - 09:35	Low resourced but long tailed spoken dialogue system building speaker:   Eric Fosler-Lussier   ::   chaired by:   Li Haizhou
09:35 - 10:10	Advances in Question Answering Research for Personal Assistants speaker:   Alessandro Moschitti   ::   chaired by:   Gao Wei
10:10 - 10:45	A Typology of Ethical Risks in Language Technology with an Eye Towards Where Transparent Documentation Can Help speaker:   Emily M. Bender   ::   chaired by:   Kokil Jaidka
10:45 - 11:20	Do pretraining language models really understand language? speaker:   Minlie Huang   ::   chaired by:   Lei Wenqiang
11:20 - 11:55	Low Resource Machine Translation speaker:   Pushpak Bhattacharyya   ::   chaired by:   Soujanya Poria
11:55 - 15:00	Lunch break
15:00 - 16:00	Panel discussion: On Low-Resource NLP   chaired by:   Nancy Chen
16:00 - 16:35	Understanding Product Reviews: Topic-Specific Word Embedding Learning and Question-Answering speaker:   Yulan He   ::   chaired by:   Jing Jiang
16:30 - 16:50	Closing Remarks