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Structure and Learning
September 5-10, 2021


Sep 6 Sep 7 Sep 8 Sep 9 Sep 10

Sep 6

11:30 - 12:30 Opening Talk Hybrid Humor AI by Max Petrenko (Amazon Web Services - Seattle, US) and Christian Hempelmann (Texas A&M University - Commerce, US) Chair of the day: Tiansi Dong (Universität Bonn)
12:30 - 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 - 13:45 Opening and introduction of participants by Tiansi Dong (Universität Bonn, DE) Achim Rettinger (Universität Trier, DE) Jie Tang (Tsinghua University - Beijing, CN)) Barbara Tversky (Columbia University - New York, US) Frank van Harmelen (VU University Amsterdam, NL)
13:45 - 14:45 Rotating Spheres -- A New Wheel for Neuro-Symbolic Unification by Tiansi Dong (Universität Bonn, DE) Joint deductive and inductive reasoning benchmarks by Achim Rettinger (Universität Trier, DE)
14:45 - 15:15 Discussion of seed Working Groups using breakout rooms in zoom! 15:15 - 15:45 Participants choose first around working groups
15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 Afternoon Working Groups 1
17:00 - 18:00 Hands, Actions, and Space: Doing and Thinking by Barbara Tversky (Columbia University - New York, US)
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
20:30 - 21:30 Learning about Language and Action for Robots by Tony Cohn (University of Leeds, GB)
21:30 - open-end hybrid get together

Sep 7

9:00 - 10:00 Neural-Symbolic Models, Dual-Process Theories, and Cognitive Architectures by Ron Sun (Rensselaer Polytechnic - Troy, US) Chair of the day: Sven Naumann (Universität Trier, DE)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Morning Working Groups 1
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30 The challenges of bringing together NLU, multilinguality and KG by Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, IT) Knowledge Graph and Cognitive Learning: from Perception to Memory Embedding by Volker Tresp (Siemens - München, DE)
14:45 - 15:15 Discussion of seed Working Groups using breakout rooms in zoom! 15:15 - 15:45 Participants choose first around working groups
15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:00 Afternoon Working Groups 1
18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
19:30 - 20:30 What are good representations for video understanding? by Jürgen Gall (Universität Bonn, DE)
20:30 - open-end hybrid get together

Sep 8

9:00 - 10:00 Morning Working Groups Chair of the day:Thomas Liebig (TU Dortmund, DE)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Morning Working Groups
11:30 - 12:30 WuDao: Pre-train the World by Jie Tang (Tsinghua University - Beijing, CN))
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 Ethics of AI Humor by Christian Hempelmann (Texas A&M University - Commerce, US) Knowledge and Inferences Needed for Humor by Julia Rayz (Purdue University - West Lafayette, US)
14:30 - 15:30 Group presentation, update group structures, and participants can re-select working groups
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 Afternoon Working Groups
17:00 - 18:00 Rotating spheres in the Milky Way by Michael Kramer (MPI für Radioastronomie, DE) Characterising Graph Neural Networks Using Logical Rules by Bernado Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, GB)
18:00 - Dinner
19:30 - open-end hybrid get together

Sep 9

9:00 - 10:00 Morning Working Groups Chair of the day: Sven Naumann (Universität Trier, DE)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30 Morning Working Groups
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30 Learning linguistic representations from a structuralist perspective: Some gaps, challenges and opportunities by Alexander Mehler (Goethe-Universität - Frankfurt am Main, DE) LiterallyWikidata - A Benchmark for Knowledge Graph Completion using Literals by Mehwish Alam (FIZ Karlsruhe, DE) p-adic Coding & Computation for Structured Data by Thomas Liebig (TU Dortmund, DE) Knowledge graph topology and ontology and their relationships to properties of space and properties in space by Steffen Staab (Universität Stuttgart, DE) Knowledge Representation and Knowledgeable Learning for Natural Language Processing by Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University - Beijing, CN)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:00 Afternoon Working Groups
18:00 - Dinner
20:30 - 21:30 Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs by Jian Tang (Mila – Montreal, CA)
21:30 - open-end hybrid get together

Sep 10

9:00 - 9:30 Boxology for Hybrid Learning and Reasoning Systems by Frank van Harmelen (VU University Amsterdam, NL) Chair of the day: Achim Rettinger (Universität Trier, DE)
9:30 - 10:00 Working group finalizing outcomes
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30 Group final presentation and discussions
12:00 - 13:30 lunch Departure