The 1st workshop on Language Grounding for Robotics at ACL 2017 seeks submissions on embodied, task-oriented language grounding. The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Aligning and Translating Language to Situated Actions
- Simulated and Real World Situations
- Instructions for Navigation
- Instructions for Articulation
- Instructions for Manipulation
- Skill Learning via Interactive Dialogue
- Language Learning via Grounded Dialogue
- Language Generation for Embodied Tasks
- Grounded Knowledge Representations
- Mapping Language to the World
- Grounded Reinforcement Learning
- Language-based Games for Grounding
- Structured and Deep Learning Models for Embodied Language
- New Datasets for Embodied Language
- Better Evaluation Metrics for Embodied Language
Regina Barzilay, MIT
Joyce Chai, MSU
Dieter Fox, Univ of Washington
Raia Hadsell, Google DeepMind
Hadas Kress-Gazit, Cornell
Percy Liang, Stanford
Ray Mooney, UT Austin
Nicholas Roy, MIT
Stefanie Tellex, Brown
Jason Weston, Facebook AI Research
Julia Hockenmaier, UIUC
Ray Mooney, UT Austin
Luke Zettlemoyer, Univ of Washington
Mohit Bansal, UNC Chapel Hill
Cynthia Matuszek, UMBC
Jacob Andreas, UC Berkeley
Yoav Artzi, Cornell
Yonatan Bisk, ISI, USC
Contact email: robonlp2017-organizers [at] googlegroups.com
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Submission Instructions:
We invite anonymized submissions of up to 4 pages (with unlimited pages for references). Please use the ACL 2017 style files, available at http://acl2017.org/calls/papers/.
The submission website is at: https://www.softconf.com/acl2017/robonlp/.
Presentation Format:
For each accepted paper, we will decide oral or poster presentation, based on reviewer suggestions and the overall workshop schedule.
Best Paper Awards:
Selected paper(s) will be recognized with a best paper award.
Important Dates:
Deadline for submission: 21 April 2017
Notification of acceptance: 19 May 2017
Deadline for camera-ready version: 26 May 2017
Early registration deadline (ACL'17): TBA
Workshop Date: 3 August 2017