ACL 2024
The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is a key conference in the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing, where researchers and practitioners from around the world gather to present their latest findings and innovations.
Sony is proud to be a Platinum sponsor of ACL 2024.
We look forward to this year's exciting sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, featuring a variety of ways to connect with participants in person.
Sony Exhibition Booth
Visit our booth at the exhibition to explore our latest technology firsthand and engage with our team.
Location: #16, ACL Exhibition area
Sony Booth Open Hours:
- Monday, 12 August | 09:30 - 17:30
- Tuessday, 13 August | 09:30 - 17:30
- Wednesday, 14 August | 09:30 - 17:30
Technology Presentations / Information Session
We will have technology presentations and information sessions at Sony Booth (#16 n the Exhibition area).
Deep Generative Modeling and Vision-Language Pretraining
< Presentation > Mengjie Zhao
< Date & Time >
- Monday, 12 August, 2024 | 10:30 - 10:45
- Tuessday, 13 August, 2024 | 15:30 - 15:45
- Wednesday, 14 August, 2024 | 10:00 - 10:15
< Link >
- https://sony.github.io/creativeai/
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13267
Commonsense Persona-grounded Dialogue Challenge
< Presentation > Hiromi Wakaki
< Date & Time >
- Monday, 12 August, 2024 | 10:45 - 11:00
- Tuessday, 13 August, 2024 | 15:45 - 16:00
- Wednesday, 14 August, 2024 | 10:15 - 10:30
< Link >
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11228
- https://sites.google.com/view/6thnlp4convai/shared-task
- https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/commonsense-persona-grounded-dialogue-challenge-2023
- https://huggingface.co/datasets/Sony/ComperDial
Information Session - Corporate Introduction
< Date & Time >
- Monday, 12 August, 2024 | 15:30 - 15:45
- Tuessday, 13 August, 2024 | 10:00 - 10:15
- Wednesday, 14 August, 2024 | 12:00 - 12:15
Technical Programs at ACL 2024
Poster Sessions
DIFFUCOMET: Contextual Commonsense Knowledge Diffusion
- Authors : Silin Gao (EPFL), Mete Ismayilzada (EPFL), Mengjie Zhao (Sony Group Corporation), Hiromi Wakaki (Sony Group Corporation), Yuki Mitsufuji (Sony Group Corporation/Sony AI), Antoine Bosselut (EPFL)
- Date/Time : 14 August, 2024 | 10:30-12:00 (In-Person Poster Session 6)
- Location : Convention Center A1
On the Language Encoder of Contrastive Cross-modal Models
- Authors : Mengjie Zhao (Sony Group Corporation), Junya Ono (Sony Group Corporation), Zhi Zhong (Sony Group Corporation), Chieh-Hsin Lai (Sony AI), Yuhta Takida (Sony AI), Naoki Murata (Sony AI), Wei-Hsiang Liao (Sony AI), Takashi Shibuya (Sony AI), Hiromi Wakaki (Sony Group Corporation), Yuki Mitsufuji (Sony Group Corporation/Sony AI)
- Date/Time : 12 August, 2024 | 17:45-18:45 (Findings In-Person Poster Session 2)
- Location : Convention Center A1
Few-shot Dialogue Strategy Learning for Motivational Interviewing via Inductive Reasoning
- Authors : Zhouhang Xie (UCSD), Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder (Allen Institute for AI), Mengjie Zhao (Sony Group Corporation), Yoshinori Maeda (Sony Group Corporation), Keiichi Yamada (Sony Group Corporation), Hiromi Wakaki (Sony Group Corporatiion), Julian McAuley (UCSD)
- Date/Time : 13 August, 2024 | 12:15-13:15 (Findings In-Person Poster Session 3)
- Location : Convention Center A1
It is Simple Sometimes: A Study On Improving Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Performance
- Authors : Laura Cabello (University of Copenhagen), Uchenna Akujuobi (Sony AI)
- Date/Time : 12 August, 2024 | 17:45-18:45 (Findings In-Person Poster Session 2)
- Location : Convention Center A1
Analysis of Multi-Source Language Training in Cross-Lingual Transfer
- Authors : Seong Hoon Lim (Hanyang University), Taejun Yun (Hanyang University), Jinhyeon Kim (Hanyang University), Jihun Choi (Sony AI), Taeuk Kim (Hanyang University)
- Date/Time : 22 August, 2024 | 09:00-09:45 (Virtual Poster Session 1)
Workshop
W24: The 6th Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI (ConvAI)
Shared Task: Persona Grounded Dialogue
< Presenter > Hiromi Wakaki (Sony Group Corporation)
- Date/Time : 16 August 2024 | 15:50 - 16:20
- Location : World Ballroom A
Recruiting Information
We look forward to working with highly motivated individuals to fill the world with emotion and to pioneer future innovation through dreams and curiosity. If interested, please access to our career site and/or consider visiting the Sony Information Desk at Sony booth #16 in the ACL exhibition area to know more about Sony Group.
Career Site:
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/Careers/japan/
Sony Group Technology Portal
You can explore our technology by clicking HERE.