AIS 2020 Conference: Schedule and Speakers for Top NLP/AI/IR Papers

ACL, IJCAI and SIGIR are top international conferences in natural language processing, artificial intelligence and information retrieval. The AIS Top Conference Paper Report, organized by the Chinese Information Processing Society Youth Committee, has been held since 2017, inviting authors of papers accepted by these three conferences to present.

In 2020, AIS 2020, co‑hosted by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence and Meituan, collected 74 papers from the three conferences, organized into 15 sessions covering topics such as natural language analysis, knowledge and reasoning, information retrieval, recommendation, machine translation, sentiment analysis, dialogue, language modeling and cross‑lingual processing.

The event will be streamed online on May 23‑24, 2020. Registration is free via the QR code or the official website.

Organizers and Chairs

Chair: Liu Kang (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing Academy of AI). Program Chair: Huang Shujian (Nanjing University).

Keynote Speakers

Che Wanxiang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Jia Jia (Tsinghua University), Lan Yanyan (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), among others.

Selected Sessions

Opening ceremony, trend analysis of ACL, IJCAI, SIGIR papers, Session 1 – NLP Analysis & Applications, Session 2 – Knowledge & Reasoning, Session 5 – Information Retrieval, Session 7 – Machine Translation, Session 11 – Recommendation Systems, Session 14 – Sentiment Analysis, etc.