1<!DOCTYPE html> 2<html lang="en"> 3 4<head> 5 <meta charset="utf-8" /> 6 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /> 7 8 <title> 9 MiC @ NeurIPS 2021 10 </title> 11 <meta name="description" content="Workshop at NeurIPS 2021" /> 12 13 <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/main.css?t=1639397711" /> 14 15 <link rel="preload" as="font" href="/assets/webfonts/fa-regular-400.woff2" type="font/woff2" crossorigin="anonymous" /> 16 <link rel="preload" as="font" href="/assets/webfonts/fa-solid-900.woff2" type="font/woff2" crossorigin="anonymous" /> 17 <link rel="prefetch" as="image" href="/assets/icons/live.svg" type="image/svg+xml" crossorigin="anonymous" /> 18 <link rel="prefetch" as="fetch" href="/assets/js/data.json" type="application/json" crossorigin="anonymous" /> 19</head> 20 21<body class="pb-4"> 22 <header> 23 <!-- navigation bar (web only): --><nav class="navbar navbar-expand-md navbar-light bg-light mb-3"> 24 <div class="container"> 25 26 <a class="navbar-brand" href="/">MiC @ NeurIPS 2021</a> 27 28 <button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarSupportedContent" aria-controls="navbarSupportedContent" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation"> 29 <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span> 30 </button> 31 32 <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarSupportedContent"> 33 <ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto"> 34 <li class="nav-item "><a class="nav-link" href="/call/" title="Call"> 35 Call 36 </a> 37 </li> 38 <li class="nav-item "><a class="nav-link" href="/program/" title="Program"> 39 Program 40 </a> 41 </li> 42 <li class="nav-item "><a class="nav-link" href="/papers/" title="Accepted papers"> 43 Accepted papers 44 </a> 45 </li> 46 <li class="nav-item "><a class="nav-link" href="/speakers/" title="Invited speakers"> 47 Invited speakers 48 </a> 49 </li> 50 <li class="nav-item "><a class="nav-link" href="/participation/" title="Participation"> 51 Participation 52 </a> 53 </li> 54 </ul> 55 </div> 56 57 </div> 58</nav></header> 59 <main class="container"> 60 61 <h1> 62 Meaning in Context: Pragmatic Communication in Humans and Machines 63 </h1> 64 <p class="lead"> 65 Workshop at <a href="https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2021">The 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021)</a><br> 66 Monday, December 13, 2021 67 </p> 68 69 <hr class="my-4"> 70 71 <p>Pragmatics â the aspects of language use that involve reasoning about context and other agentsâ goals and belief states â has traditionally been treated as the âwastebasketâ of language research (Bar-Hillel 1971), posing a challenge for both cognitive theories and artificial intelligence systems. Ideas from theoretical linguistics have inspired computational applications, such as in referential expression generation (Krahmer and van Deemter, 2012) or computational models of dialogue and recognition of speech or dialogue acts (Bunt and Black, 2000; Jurafsky, 2006; Ginzburg and Fernández, 2010; Bunt, 2016). But only recently, powerful artificial models based on neural or subsymbolic architectures have come into focus that generate or interpret language in pragmatically sophisticated and potentially open-ended ways (Golland et al. 2010, Andreas and Klein 2016, Monroe et al. 2017, Fried et al. 2018), building upon simultaneous advances in the cognitive science of pragmatics (Franke 2011, Frank and Goodman 2012). However, such models still fall short of human pragmatic reasoning in several important aspects. For example, existing approaches are often tailored to, or even trained to excel on, a specific pragmatic task (e.g., Mao et al. (2016) on discriminatory object description), leaving human-like task flexibility unaccounted for. It also remains underexplored how pragmatics connects to domain-general reasoning, how it may be efficiently implemented, and how it may arise over the course of learning and evolution.</p> 72 73<p>
73In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers from Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Machine Learning to think critically about the next generation of artificial pragmatic agents and theories of human pragmatic reasoning. We aim to discuss questions such as the following:</p> 74 75<ul> 76 <li>How might cognitive theories of pragmatics inform artificial intelligence systems?</li> 77 <li>How might model successes and failures inform theories of human pragmatic reasoning?</li> 78 <li>As pragmatic reasoning is arguably fairly complex, how can it be efficiently implemented or approximated? How are such multi-faceted and contextually-variable skills acquired in humans (through learning, evolution)?</li> 79 <li>How does pragmatics connect to other non-linguistic aspects of intelligence?</li> 80 <li>What is the nature of the training signal that learners (humans and models) must receive in order to acquire pragmatic reasoning abilities?</li> 81 <li>What is the role of Theory of Mind and social reasoning in pragmatics?</li> 82 <li>What can we learn from the development of pragmatic abilities in children or deficits in pragmatic reasoning in non-neurotypical individuals?</li> 83 <li>How can we model the (potentially non-cooperative) goals of communicating agents at the level of dialogue or discourse?</li> 84</ul> 85 86 87 <hr class="my-4"> 88 89 <h2>Organizers</h2> 90 <br> 91 <div> 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 <div class="row"> 99 100 101 <div class="col-sm-6 clearfix"> 102 <img src="https://mic-workshop.github.io/assets/headshots/organizers/jh.png" 103 class="img-responsive" width="22%" style="float: left; border-radius: 50%; vertical-align:top; margin-right: 15px; border:1px solid #999999; margin-bottom: 5%;" /> 104 105 <p style="margin:0; "><a href="https://jennhu.github.io/" style="font-weight:bold">Jennifer Hu</a></p> 106 107 <p style="font-size:0.8em;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-word;">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</p> 108 </div> 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 <div class="col-sm-6 clearfix"> 121 <img src="https://mic-workshop.github.io/assets/headshots/organizers/nz.jpg" 122 class="img-responsive" width="22%" style="float: left; border-radius: 50%; vertical-align:top; margin-right: 15px; border:1px solid #999999; margin-bottom: 5%;" /> 123 124 <p style="margin:0; "><a href="https://www.nogsky.com/" style="font-weight:bold">Noga Zaslavsky</a></p> 125 126 <p style="font-size:0.8em;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-word;">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</p> 127 </div> 128 129 130 131 132 </div> 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 <div class="row"> 141 142 143 <div class="col-sm-6 clearfix"> 144 <img src="https://mic-workshop.github.io/assets/headshots/organizers/an.png" 145 class="img-responsive" width="22%" style="float: left; border-radius: 50%; vertical-align:top; margin-right: 15px; border:1px solid #999999; margin-bottom: 5%;" /> 146 147 <p style="margin:0; "><a href="http://www.aidanematzadeh.me/" style="font-weight:bold">Aida Nematzadeh</a></p> 148 149 <p style="font-size:0.8em;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-word;">DeepMind</p> 150 </div> 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 <div class="col-sm-6 clearfix"> 163 <img src="https://mic-workshop.github.io/assets/headshots/organizers/mf.jpg" 164 class="img-responsive" width="22%" style="float: left; border-radius: 50%; vertical-align:top; margin-right: 15px; border:1px solid #999999; margin-bottom: 5%;" /> 165 166 <p style="margin:0; "><a href="https://www.home.uni-osnabrueck.de/michfranke/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">Michael Franke</a></p> 167 168 <p style="font-size:0.8em;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-word;">Universität Tübingen</p> 169 </div> 170 171 172 173 174 </div> 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 <div class="row"> 183 184 185 <div class="col-sm-6 clearfix"> 186 <img src="https://mic-workshop.github.io/assets/headshots/organizers/rl.jpg" 187 class="img-responsive" width="22%" style="float: left; border-radius: 50%; vertical-align:top; margin-right: 15px; border:1px solid #999999; margin-bottom: 5%;" /> 188 189 <p style="margin:0; "><a href="https://www.mit.edu/~rplevy/" style="font-weight:bold">Roger Levy</a></p> 190 191 <p style="font-size:0.8em;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-word;">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</p> 192 </div> 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 <div class="col-sm-6 clearfix"> 205 <img src="https://mic-workshop.github.io/assets/headshots/organizers/ng.jpg" 206 class="img-responsive" width="22%" style="float: left; border-radius: 50%; vertical-align:top; margin-right: 15px; border:1px solid #999999; margin-bottom: 5%;" /> 207 208 <p style="margin:0; "><a href="https://cocolab.stanford.edu/ndg" style="font-weight:bold">Noah Goodman</a></p> 209 210 <p style="font-size:0.8em;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-word;">Stanford University</p> 211 </div> 212 213 214 215 216 </div> 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 </div> 224 225 <!-- <div> 226 <p>The organizers can be reached at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.</p> 227 </div> --> 228 229 230 </main> 231 <footer class="container"></footer><div class="modal fade" id="link-modal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="link-modal-label" aria-hidden="true">
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