Schedule (2023)

All times are presented in Singapore Standard Time (GMT+8).

Date: Wednesday, December 6th, 2023

Location: Resorts World Convention Centre Located at 8 Sentosa Gateway, Singapore 098269

Room: Virgo 2

• 9:00–9:15 Introduction

• 9:15–10:30 Panel

• 10:30–10:45 Coffee Break

• 10:45–12:00 Keynote Talk - Yunyao Li, Director of Machine Learning, Adobe Experience Platform

• 12:00–13:00 Lunch

• Session One

  • 13:00–13:15 Nearest Neighbor Search over Vectorized Lexico-Syntactic Patterns for Relation Ex- traction from Financial Documents
  • 13:15–13:30 LEAF: Linguistically Enhanced Event Temporal Relation Framework
  • 13:30–13:45 A Graph-Guided Reasoning Approach for Open-ended Commonsense Question Answering
  • 13:45–14:00 Generating Irish Text with a Flexible Plug-and-Play Architecture
  • 14:00–14:15 Findings Talk - A Lightweight Method to Generate Unanswerable Questions in English

• 14:15-14:25 Short Break

• Session 2

  • 14:25–14:40 Symbolic Planning and Code Generation for Grounded Dialogue
  • 14:40–14:55 Towards Zero-Shot Frame Semantic Parsing with Task Agnostic Ontologies and Simple Labels
  • 14:55–15:10 Co-evolving data-driven and NLU-driven Synthesizers for Generating Code in Domain Growth and Data Scarcity
  • 15:10–15:25 Findings Talk - What Makes Chain-of-Thought Prompting Effective? A Counterfactual Study

• 15:30–15:45 Coffee Break

• Session Three

  • 15:45–16:00 Complementary Roles of Inference and Language Models in QA
  • 16:00–16:15 Controlled Data Augmentation for Training Task-Oriented Dialog Systems with Low Resource Data
  • 16:15–16:30 A Hybrid of Rule-based and Transformer-based Approaches for Relation Extraction in Biodiversity Literature
  • 16:30–16:45 Findings Talk - Solving the Right Problem is Key for Translational NLP
  • 16:45–17:00 Findings Talk - TR-Rules: Rule-based Model for Link Forecasting on Temporal Knowledge Graph Considering Temporal Redundancy

• 17:00–17:10 Short Break

• Session Four

  • 17:10–17:25 Findings Talk - BanLemma: A Word Formation Dependent Rule and Dictionary Based Bangla Lemmatizer
  • 17:25–17:40 Findings Talk - Evaluating Emotion Arcs Across Languages: Bridging the Global Divide in Emotion Research

• 17:40–17:45 Best Paper Award

• 17:45–18:00 Closing