Brown University invites you to attend an academic memorial event to commemorate the research and legacy of Eugene Charniak. Eugene, an ACL Lifetime Achievement Award winner and ACL fellow, passed away in June 2023. His colleagues and students have organized a two-day workshop of invited presentations of cutting-edge research with an emphasis on the themes which defined Eugene's career: the legacy of classic statistical NLP/ML, the sometimes-surprising effectiveness of simple baselines, clever tricks for dealing with data sparsity such as self-training or distant supervision, unsupervised learning, and frame-based representations of knowledge for planning and natural language understanding.
A full program will be posted later this summer. Mark Johnson will give a keynote presentation, along with research talks by Regina Barzilay, Michael Collins, Jason Eisner, Lillian Lee, Ani Nenkova, Ellie Pavlick, Brian Roark, Chris Tanner and Byron Wallace. There will also be opportunities to remember Eugene in a social setting, and a panel discussion of the workshop's research themes.
The event will take place at the Brown Computer Science Department in Providence, RI; attendees are responsible for finding their own accommodations. Instructions for travel to Providence are available here. The program will begin at 9am on Friday the 8th, and conclude at 1:30pm on Saturday the 9th. Please mark your calendars now!
Virtual options
We are planning to livestream and record the event for virtual attendees. Stay tuned for more details!
