LARP - Program

Day 1 – Monday 8th September

08:30	Registration
09:15	Welcome and introductory remarks
09:25	Keynote 1: Moa Johansson (session chair: Erik Lagerstedt)
10:25	Fika (Swedish: “a coffee and a treat”)
10:45	Oral session 1 (session chair: Hyewon Jang) 10:45 Ved Mathai, Janet B. Pierrehumbert EventHopNLI: A Functional Dataset for Systematically Diagnosing Logical Failures in LLM Temporal Reasoning 11:10 Manar Ali, Marika Sarzotti, Simeon Junker, Hendrik Buschmeier, Sina Zarrieß Towards Neuro-Symbolic Approaches for Referring Expression Generation 11:35 Dominik Künkele and Simon Dobnik Learning to Refer: How Scene Complexity Affects Emergent Communication in Neural Agents 12:00 Vladislav Maraev, Alexander Berman, Staffan Larsson Combining Information State Update, Harel Statecharts and LLMs for controllable and flexible Conversational AI
12:30	Lunch at Restaurant Näckrosen
13:30	Oral session 2 (session chair: Bill Noble) 13:30 Giulia D’Agostino, Michiel van der Meer, Chris Reed Extracting a Prototypical Argumentative Pattern in Financial Q&As 13:55 Dan Oneata, Desmond Elliott, Stella Frank Seeing What Tastes Good: Revisiting Multimodal Distributional Semantics in the Billion Parameter Era 14:20 Ludovic Mompelat Simple Morphology, Complex Models: A Benchmark Study and Error Analysis of POS Tagging for Martinican Creole
14:45	Fika
15:00	Keynote 2: Dan Roth (session chair: Nikolai Ilinykh)
18:00	Social event (see Dinner Venue); the boat will leave at 18:00, so make sure to be at Stenpiren at 17:45 at the latest.

10:00	Keynote 3: Vaishak Belle (session chair: Mattias Appelgren)
11:00	Fika
11:30	Panel discussion Moderator: Shalom Lappin Panelists: Richard Johansson, Vidya Somashekarappa, Aarne Rante, Moa Johansson
12:30	Closing
12:40	Lunch at Restaurant Näckrosen