{"618906":{"#nid":"618906","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IC Faculty Candidate Talk - Yonatan Bisk, University of Washington","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGrounding NLP\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBuilding systems that capture commonsense (e.g. why is someone behaving a certain way?) and understand the physical world (e.g. why does a rock make a better hammer than a screwdriver?) requires moving NLP beyond text and building models that integrate vision and robotics to construct rich multimodal linguistic representations.\u0026nbsp; In this talk, I will present work on combining the state-of-the-art in NLP and Computer Vision to address commonsense reasoning, and introduce modeling advances for grounded language learning in robotics.\u0026nbsp; Finally, I will lay out how I plan to grow RoboNLP into a core component of the NLP and broader AI communities. Central to my research agenda is demonstrating how NLP and linguistics are key to advancing multimodal research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYonatan Bisk is a Postdoc at the University of Washington working with Yejin Choi and he received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign with Julia Hockenmaier.\u0026nbsp; His thesis work focused on unsupervised methods of structure induction.\u0026nbsp; The research results he found there motivated his move towards helping build the new field of multimodal RoboNLP.\u0026nbsp; He is an active member of the academic community (e.g. conference and workshop organization) and broader CS community (e.g. ACM Future of Computing Academy Initiatives on D\u0026amp;I, Education, Future of Work).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Yonatan Bisk provides a talk on his research in natural language processing."}],"uid":"33939","created_gmt":"2019-03-06 19:15:12","changed_gmt":"2019-03-06 19:15:12","author":"David Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-03-14T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2019-03-14T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-03-14T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-03-14 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-03-14 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-03-14 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"618905":{"id":"618905","type":"image","title":"Yonatan Bisk","body":null,"created":"1551899571","gmt_created":"2019-03-06 19:12:51","changed":"1551899571","gmt_changed":"2019-03-06 19:12:51","alt":"Yonatan Bisk","file":{"fid":"235594","name":"YonatanBisk.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/YonatanBisk.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/YonatanBisk.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":39455,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/YonatanBisk.jpg?itok=wIW2Rq25"}}},"media_ids":["618905"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Mitchell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:david.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edavid.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}