Future of NLP Workshop
Tuesday, December 10, 8:00 - 17:00
UBC Robson Square (Theatre C300)
Invited Speakers
William Wang
University of California,
Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Violet Peng
University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA)
Diyi Yang
Stanford University
Xiang Ren
University of Southern
California (USC)
Siva Reddy
McGill University
Invited Panelists
Aishwarya Agrawal
University of Montreal
Mila
Hila Gonen
University of Washington
Peter West
UBC (incoming)
Wenhu Chen
University of Waterloo
Victor Zhong
University of Waterloo
Freda Shi
University of Waterloo
Schedule
- 8:00 - 9:00 — Breakfast
- 9:00 - 9:10 — Opening Remarks (Vered Shwartz, UBC & Vector Institute)
- 9:10 - 9:50 — William Wang (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- 9:50 - 10:30 — Violet Peng (University of California, Los Angeles)
- 10:30 - 10:45 — Break
- 10:45 - 11:25 — Siva Reddy (McGill University)
- 11:25 - 12:25 — Poster Session
- 12:25 - 13:40 — Lunch Break
- 13:40 - 14:10 — Vector Engineering Team
- 14:10 - 14:50 — Diyi Yang (Stanford University)
- 14:50 - 15:30 — Xiang Ren (University of Southern California)
- 15:30 - 16:00 — Break
- 16:00 - 17:00 — Panel Discussion + Closing Remarks
Organizers
General Chair
Vered Shwartz
UBC & Vector Institute
Program Chairs
Sahithya Ravi, Eunjeong Hwang
Local Organizers
Joy Liu, Maksym Taranukhin
Publicity Chairs
Amirhossein Abaskohi, Raymond Li
Event Sponsors
For questions, issues and inquiries, please email vshwartz@cs.ubc.ca