We are excited to announce that, following EMNLP conferences , #acl2021nlp will start the "Findings of ACL" initiative to allow for more high quality papers to be accepted. Stay tuned for more details! #NLProc

.U.S. Army researchers create pioneering approach to real-time conversational #AI lnkd.in/eZysKVW Our researchers team with USC ICT to create an approach to flexibly interpret and respond to Soldiers. Army Futures Command U.S. Army DEVCOM

Register today for the event "Machine Learning for Everyone: Star Wars Edition!" Email [email protected] to register. #ARL #machinelearning #maythefourthbewithyou Army Futures Command U.S. Army DEVCOM

🎉 Introducing Datasets on arXiv! 🎉 The new "Code & Data" tab shows datasets used and introduced in the paper! Read more: medium.com/paperswithcode…

Season 2 Episode 2 is out! Ray Mooney (Computer Science at UT Austin) on Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats. Ray talks about how he finds joy in brainstorming ideas with his students, making an impact by doing what one loves, his fascination with the evolution of human intelligence and a lot more

Today, Brian Plüss led the group through "Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research" by Matt Marge, et al. We pondered how this relates to #argumentation, #conversationalAI and #informationethics. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

AAAI conference announces a 15% acceptance rate. This is harmful to field. There is much evidence that reviewing process is stochastic. Such a low acceptance rate seems largely a consequence of throwing out 1/2 papers and then reviewing much as previously. AAAI #aaai2022

SIGdial 2022's site is live: 2022.sigdial.org #SIGdial2022 will be held in #Edinburgh from the 7th to 9th of September 2022! Tentative dates are: - 12th March, Special Session Proposals - 11th May, Paper Submission - 2nd July, Paper Notification - 17th July, Camera Ready

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Here's the December 2021 release of draft chapters for Speech and Language Processing, just in time for Jim and I to wish you all a Happy New Year! Enjoy! web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

Congrats to the new class of ACL fellows, with groundbreaking work in parsing, MT, discourse, grounded NLP, WSD, dialog, multilingual NLP: Joakim Nivre, Qun Liu, Luke Zettlemoyer, Anette Frank, Joyce Chai, Eneko Agirre, Chengqing Zong, Amanda Stent 👏🎉 aclweb.org/aclwiki/ACL_Fe…

It would be great to study vision-language navigation (VLN): 1⃣ in a dynamic environment; 2⃣ with freeform, sensorimotor-grounded dialogue; 3⃣ to handle unexpected situations. But how? Check out our new #EMNLP2022 Findings paper *DOROTHIE* from the #SLEDLab @Michigan_AI. A🧵

AI over-reliance is an important issue for conversational agents. Our work supported mainly by the DARPA FACT program proposes introducing positive friction to encourage users to think critically when making decisions. Great team-work all! Matt Marge ConvAI@UIUC

Check out the great accomplishments from my KMASS program! Proud of the teams and what they achieved.