Monday, August 10th

Please note that all times are Pacific Time (GMT-7). You can watch the recorded talks for this day.

8:00 am - 8:30 am, Welcome and Logistics

Matt Klenk and Shiwali Mohan

8:30 am - 9:30 am, Invited Talk

Chaired by Paul Bello

Narrative summarization with integrated perception, interpretation, and text generation, Andrew Gordon. [#invited-talk-gordon]

9:30 am - 10:30 am, Poster Session 1

  1. Instructing a Cognitive Agent to Perform Sensemaking in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. Gheorghe Tecuci, Dorin Marcu, Mihai Boicu and Louis Kaiser. [#poster-tecuci]
  2. Learning Hierarchical Task Networks with Landmarks and Numeric Fluents by Combining Symbolic and Numeric Regression. Morgan Fine-Morris, Bryan Auslander, Michael W. Floyd, Greg Pennisi, Héctor Muñoz-Avila and Kalyan Moy Gupta. [#poster-fine-morris]
  3. Policy Regression for Monitoring Execution in Goal Reasoning Systems. Noah Reifsnyder and Hector Munoz-Avila. [#poster-reifsnyder]
  4. Interactions with Andrew Gordon. [#invited-talk-gordon]

10:30 am - 12:00 pm, Technical Talks on Language in Cognitive Systems

Chaired by Maria Chang
  1. Content-Centric Computational Cognitive Modeling. Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, and Jesse English. [#talk-nirenburg]
  2. Neurosymbolic AI for Situated Language Understanding. Nikhil Krishnaswamy and James Pustejovsky. [#talk-krishnaswamy]
  3. A Broader Range for ‘Meaning the Same Thing’: Human Against Machine on Hard Paraphrase Detection Tasks. Jamie Macbeth, Ella Chang, Yining Hua, Gin Chen, Sandra Grandic, and Winnie Zheng. [#talk-macbeth]

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm, Break and Continued Interactions with Speakers

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, Technical Talks on Learning and Planning

Chaired by Adam Amos-Binks
  1. The Visual Narrative Engine: A Computational Model of the Visual Narrative Parallel Architecture. Chris Martens, Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, and Neil Cohn. [#talk-martens]
  2. Learning Procedures by Augmenting Sequential Pattern Mining with Planning Knowledge. Melinda Gervasio and Karen Myers. [#talk-gervasio]
  3. Learning Hybrid Models for Variable Impedance Control of Changing-Contact Manipulation Tasks. Saif Sidhik, Mohan Sridharan, and Dirk Ruiken. [#talk-sidhik]

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm, Break and Continued Interactions with Speakers

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Fireside Chat

Gary Marcus and Ken Forbus [#invited-talk-marcus]

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Poster Session 2

  1. What Possible Use Could Consciousness Be?. Jousha Bensemann and Michael Witbrock. [#poster-bensemann]
  2. Modeling Gestalt Visual Reasoning on Raven’s progressive Matrices Using Generative Image Inpainting Techniques. Tianyu Hua and Maithilee Kunda. [#poster-hua]
  3. Forgetting-Sensitive Referring Expression Generation for Integrated Robot Architectures. Tom Williams, Torin Johnson, Will Culpepper and Kellyn Larson. [#poster-williams]
  4. Adaptive Event Retrieval for Episodic Memory. Colm Flanagan and Claude Sammut. [#poster-flanagan]
  5. Interactions with Gary Marcus and Ken Forbus. [#invited-talk-marcus]

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Last updated on August 5, 2020