[visionlist] First call for papers: LANTERN workshop at EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019

[Sandro Pezzelle]

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WHAT, WHERE, WHEN

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LANTERN workshop @EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019

Hong Kong -- Nov 2019, 3 or 4 (to be announced yet)

Workshop website: https://www.lantern.uni-saarland.de/

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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

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The First Workshop Beyond Vision and LANguage: InTEgrating Real World KNowledge
(LANTERN) <https://www.lantern.uni-saarland.de/>

What is LANTERN? Language is acquired, used, and evaluated by understanding
the world around us. It is thus essential to capture such an understanding by
exploiting knowledge from sources that are useful for grounding language.
Recent work showed the potential of visually-grounded language in
addressing task-specific challenges (e.g., visual captioning, VQA, dialog,
etc.). In this workshop, we go beyond the task-specific integration of
language and vision and encourage submissions that leverage knowledge from
external sources that are either provided by an environment or some fixed
knowledge. (See the website for more details).

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

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   Application of language and vision to robotics
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   Cognitively- and neuroscience-driven vision and language learning
   (eye-tracking, fMRI, etc.)
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   Common-sense knowledge acquisition from vision
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   Enhancing visual perception with language and structured knowledge
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   Human-robot interaction with language understanding and visual perception
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   Integration of vision and language by building cross-modal relationship
   networks
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   Integrated models of real-world knowledge, vision, and language for
   generating context-sensitive embeddings
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   Language and vision for learning games
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   Learning of quantities from vision
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   Multi-task learning for integration of language and vision
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   Reasoning with language to improve visual perception
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   Text-to-Image (natural, sketch, synthetic) generation with external
   knowledge
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   Theoretical understanding of limitations in the integration of vision
   and language
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   Visual dialog, captioning and Q&A by incorporating
   common-sense/real-world knowledge
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   Other novel tasks which combine language and vision with means of
   external knowledge

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Deadline for submission: August 19, 2019

Notification of acceptance:  September 16, 2019

Deadline for camera-ready version: September 30, 2019

Workshop date: 3 or 4 November 2019 (to be announced yet)

All deadlines are calculated at 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Savings Time (UTC
-7h)

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INVITED SPEAKERS

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   Mohit Bansal, UNC Chapel Hill
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   Lucia Specia, Imperial College London
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   Siddharth Narayanaswamy, Oxford University
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   Massimiliano Pontil, University College London


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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

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We solicit two categories of papers: long and short workshop papers that
will be included in the workshop proceedings as archival publications. All
submissions should be in PDF format and made through the Softconf link (
https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2019/ws-LANTERN/)

Submissions will go through a double-blind review process, where each
submission is reviewed by at-least two program committee members. Accepted
papers will be presented by the authors in a regular workshop session
either as a talk or a poster.

All submissions must be written in English and follow the EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019
formatting requirements using either Word or LaTeX template files provided
by EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 (https://www.emnlp-ijcnlp2019.org/).

   * Long paper submission: up to 8 pages of content, plus 2 pages for
references; final versions of long papers: one additional page (so that
reviewer’s comments can be taken into account): up to 9 pages with
unlimited pages for references

   * Short paper submission: up to 4 pages of content, plus 2 pages for
references; final version of short papers: up to 5 pages with unlimited
pages for references.


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SPONSORS

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Our workshop sponsors : SFB 1102 (http://www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/)

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CONTACTS

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The co-chairs of the workshop can be contacted by email at:
lantern2019 at googlegroups.com

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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   Aditya Mogadala, Saarland University
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   Dietrich Klakow, Saarland University
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   Sandro Pezzelle, University of Amsterdam
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   Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven
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