Invited Talks

New Frontiers of Information Extraction
Tutorial at NAACL 2022. Jul, 2022.

Event Graph Structures in Vision-Language Understanding
DataFun. Jun, 2022.

Connecting Vision and Text using Event Structures
NewsBreak. Apr, 2022.

Memories as Repositories of Events: Structural Event Knowledge Acquisition
University of Notre Dame. Feb, 2022.

Comprehensive Event Understanding in Multimedia Data
USC ISI. Dec 2021.

Structural Event Knowledge Acquisition from Multimedia Data
UIUC NLP Seminar. Nov 2021.

Event Extraction and Reasoning in Multimedia News Data
Microsoft Research. Nov 2021.

Event-centric Natural Language Understanding
Tutorial at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2021), with Muhao, Qiang, Hongming, Heng, Kathy and Dan. Aug 2021.

Improving Visual Event and Argument Role Understanding with Contrastive Image-Language Pretraining
Microsoft Research. Aug 2021.

Event-centric Natural Language Understanding
Tutorial at the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2021), with Muhao, Qiang, Hongming, Heng, and Dan. Feb, 2021.

Fine-Grained Knowledge Extraction System from Multimedia Data
ai.science. Oct 2020.

Event Understanding and Narration for Multimedia Data
Intel MDI Research Lab. May 2020.