{"id":454587,"date":"2018-01-18T16:10:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T00:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&p=454587"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:57:22","slug":"aaai-18","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/aaai-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft @ AAAI 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

Venue<\/strong>:\u00a0Hilton New Orleans Riverside (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Website<\/strong>:\u00a0AAAI-18: Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Career opportunities at MSR AI<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

 Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft is excited to be a sponsor of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>), February 2\u20137, 2018, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans, Louisiana. The purpose of the AAAI conference is to promote research in AI and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in affiliated disciplines. Many Microsoft Research researchers and engineers will be at AAAI and have contributed to the programming through tutorials and accepted papers.<\/p>\n

Please stop by our exhibit at table #5, and be sure to visit us at the AI Job Fair (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>to learn about internships, postdoc and full time job opportunities on Monday, February 5, 4 PM\u20136 PM.<\/p>\n

Committee chairs<\/h2>\n

Workshop organizing committee – Imed Zitouni<\/a><\/p>\n

Emerging topics \u2013 human-AI collaboration cochair – Ece Kamar<\/a><\/p>\n

Microsoft attendees<\/h2>\n

Joshua Allen, Microsoft
\nChris Brockett<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nBolin Ding<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nBill Dolan<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nRoland Fernandez<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nAmita Gajewar, Microsoft
\nKris Ganjam<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nViet Ha, Microsoft
\nEric Horvitz<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nNan Jiang<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nEce Kamar<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nRomain Laroche<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nPaul Li, Microsoft
\nChin-Yew Lin<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nZijia Lin<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nHarsha Nori, Microsoft
\nBesmira Nushi<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nHamid Palangi<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nHoifung Poon<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nMohammad Raza<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nAmy Siebenthaler, Microsoft
\nYuqing Tang, Microsoft
\nParul Tewari, Microsoft
\nEvelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research<\/a>
\nZhiguang Wang, Microsoft
\nZhiguo Yu, Microsoft
\nLi Zhao<\/a>, Microsoft Research AsiaOpens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Comparing Population Means Under Local Differential Privacy: With Significance and Power<\/strong>
\nBolin Ding<\/a>, Harsha Nori, Paul Li, Joshua Allen<\/p>\n

A Knowledge-Grounded Neural Conversation Model<\/strong><\/a>
\nMarjan Ghazvininejad,<\/a>Chris Brockett<\/a>, Ming-Wei Chang, <\/a>Bill Dolan<\/a>, <\/a>Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Scott Wen-Tau Yih, <\/a>Michel Galley<\/a><\/p>\n

Optimizing Interventions via Offline Policy Evaluation: Studies in Citizen Science<\/strong><\/a>
\nAvi Segal, Kobi Gal, Ece Kamar<\/a>, Eric Horvitz<\/a>, Grant Miller<\/p>\n

PAC Reinforcement Learning with an Imperfect Model<\/strong><\/a>
\nNan Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n

On Value Function Representation of Long Horizon Problems<\/strong>
\nLucas Lehnert, Harm van Seijen<\/a>, Romain Laroche<\/a><\/p>\n

CoChat: Enabling Bot and Human Collaboration for Talk Completion<\/strong>
\nXufang Luo, Zijia Lin<\/a>, Yunhong Wang, Zaiqing Nie<\/p>\n

Question-Answering with Grammatically Interpretable Representations<\/strong><\/a>
\nHamid Palangi<\/a>, Paul Smolensky<\/a>, Xiaodong He<\/a>, Li Deng<\/p>\n

Disjunctive Program Synthesis: A Robust Approach to Programming by Example<\/strong><\/a>
\nMohammad Raza<\/a>, Sumit Gulwani<\/a><\/p>\n

Dual Transfer Learning for Neural Machine Translation with Marginal Distribution Regularization<\/strong><\/a>
\nYijun Wang, Yingce Xia, Li Zhao<\/a>, Jiang Bian<\/a>, Tao Qin<\/a>, Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>, Guiquan Liu<\/p>\n

Learning Structured Representation for Text Classification via Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a>
\nTianyang Zhang, Minlie Huang, Li Zhao<\/a><\/p>\n

Reinforcement Learning for Relation Classification from Noisy Data<\/strong><\/a>
\nJun Feng, Minlie Huang, Li Zhao<\/a>, Yang Yang, Xiaoyan Zhu<\/p>\n

Word Attention for Sequence-to-Sequence Text Understanding<\/strong><\/a>
\nLijun Wu, Fei Tian<\/a>, Li Zhao<\/a>, JianHuang Lai, Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Scalable Deep Learning Using CNTK
\n<\/strong>Saturday, February 3 @ 9:00 AM \u2013 1:00 PM
\nYuqing Tang, Sayan Pathak<\/p>\n

Machine Reading for Precision Medicine<\/strong>
\nSaturday, February 3 @ 2:00 \u2013 6:00 PM
\nHoifung Poon<\/a>, Chris Quirk<\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Venue<\/strong>:\u00a0Hilton New Orleans Riverside<\/a><\/p>\n

Website<\/strong>:\u00a0AAAI-18: Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n

Career opportunities at MSR AI<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

 Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft is excited to be a sponsor of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18<\/a>), February 2\u20137, 2018, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans, Louisiana. The purpose of the AAAI conference is to promote research in AI and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in affiliated disciplines. Many Microsoft Research researchers and engineers will be at AAAI and have contributed to the programming through tutorials and accepted papers.<\/p>\n

Please stop by our exhibit at table #5, and be sure to visit us at the AI Job Fair <\/a>to learn about internships, postdoc and full time job opportunities on Monday, February 5, 4 PM\u20136 PM.<\/p>\n

Committee chairs<\/h2>\n

Workshop organizing committee – Imed Zitouni<\/a><\/p>\n

Emerging topics \u2013 human-AI collaboration cochair – Ece Kamar<\/a><\/p>\n

Microsoft attendees<\/h2>\n

Joshua Allen, Microsoft
\nChris Brockett<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nBolin Ding<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nBill Dolan<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nRoland Fernandez<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nAmita Gajewar, Microsoft
\nKris Ganjam<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nViet Ha, Microsoft
\nEric Horvitz<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nNan Jiang<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nEce Kamar<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nRomain Laroche<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nPaul Li, Microsoft
\nChin-Yew Lin<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nZijia Lin<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nHarsha Nori, Microsoft
\nBesmira Nushi<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nHamid Palangi<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nHoifung Poon<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nMohammad Raza<\/a>, Microsoft Research
\nAmy Siebenthaler, Microsoft
\nYuqing Tang, Microsoft
\nParul Tewari, Microsoft
\nEvelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research<\/a>
\nZhiguang Wang, Microsoft
\nZhiguo Yu, Microsoft
\nLi Zhao<\/a>, Microsoft Research AsiaOpens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Comparing Population Means Under Local Differential Privacy: With Significance and Power<\/strong>
\nBolin Ding<\/a>, Harsha Nori, Paul Li, Joshua Allen<\/p>\n

A Knowledge-Grounded Neural Conversation Model<\/strong><\/a>
\nMarjan Ghazvininejad,<\/a>Chris Brockett<\/a>, Ming-Wei Chang, <\/a>Bill Dolan<\/a>, <\/a>Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Scott Wen-Tau Yih, <\/a>Michel Galley<\/a><\/p>\n

Optimizing Interventions via Offline Policy Evaluation: Studies in Citizen Science<\/strong><\/a>
\nAvi Segal, Kobi Gal, Ece Kamar<\/a>, Eric Horvitz<\/a>, Grant Miller<\/p>\n

PAC Reinforcement Learning with an Imperfect Model<\/strong><\/a>
\nNan Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n

On Value Function Representation of Long Horizon Problems<\/strong>
\nLucas Lehnert, Harm van Seijen<\/a>, Romain Laroche<\/a><\/p>\n

CoChat: Enabling Bot and Human Collaboration for Talk Completion<\/strong>
\nXufang Luo, Zijia Lin<\/a>, Yunhong Wang, Zaiqing Nie<\/p>\n

Question-Answering with Grammatically Interpretable Representations<\/strong><\/a>
\nHamid Palangi<\/a>, Paul Smolensky<\/a>, Xiaodong He<\/a>, Li Deng<\/p>\n

Disjunctive Program Synthesis: A Robust Approach to Programming by Example<\/strong><\/a>
\nMohammad Raza<\/a>, Sumit Gulwani<\/a><\/p>\n

Dual Transfer Learning for Neural Machine Translation with Marginal Distribution Regularization<\/strong><\/a>
\nYijun Wang, Yingce Xia, Li Zhao<\/a>, Jiang Bian<\/a>, Tao Qin<\/a>, Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>, Guiquan Liu<\/p>\n

Learning Structured Representation for Text Classification via Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a>
\nTianyang Zhang, Minlie Huang, Li Zhao<\/a><\/p>\n

Reinforcement Learning for Relation Classification from Noisy Data<\/strong><\/a>
\nJun Feng, Minlie Huang, Li Zhao<\/a>, Yang Yang, Xiaoyan Zhu<\/p>\n

Word Attention for Sequence-to-Sequence Text Understanding<\/strong><\/a>
\nLijun Wu, Fei Tian<\/a>, Li Zhao<\/a>, JianHuang Lai, Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Scalable Deep Learning Using CNTK
\n<\/strong>Saturday, February 3 @ 9:00 AM \u2013 1:00 PM
\nYuqing Tang, Sayan Pathak<\/p>\n

Machine Reading for Precision Medicine<\/strong>
\nSaturday, February 3 @ 2:00 \u2013 6:00 PM
\nHoifung Poon<\/a>, Chris Quirk<\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"About","content":"Microsoft is excited to be a sponsor of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18<\/a>), February 2\u20137, 2018, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans, Louisiana. The purpose of the AAAI conference is to promote research in AI and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in affiliated disciplines. Many Microsoft Research researchers and engineers will be at AAAI and have contributed to the programming through tutorials and accepted papers.\r\n\r\nPlease stop by our exhibit at table #5, and be sure to visit us at the AI Job Fair <\/a>to learn about internships, postdoc and full time job opportunities on Monday, February 5, 4 PM\u20136 PM.\r\n

Committee chairs<\/h2>\r\nWorkshop organizing committee - Imed Zitouni<\/a>\r\n\r\nEmerging topics \u2013 human-AI collaboration cochair - Ece Kamar<\/a>\r\n

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