The NeSy workshop series celebrates the integration of neural and symbolic thinking, technologies, theories and techniques of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. NeSy is the annual meeting of the Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning Association.1. Neural networks and statistical Machine Learning have obtained industrial relevance in a number of areas from retail to healthcare, achieving state-of-the-art performance at language modelling, speech recognition, graph analytics, image, video and sensor data analysis. Symbolic AI, on the other hand, is challenged by such unstructured data, but is recognised as being in principle transparent, in that reasoned facts from knowledge-bases can be inspected to interpret how decisions follow from input. Neural and symbolic methods also contrast in the problems that they excel at: scene recognition from images appears to be a problem still outside the capabilities of symbolic systems, for example, while neural networks are not yet suficient for industrial-strength complex planning scenarios and deductive reasoning tasks.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings Program Committee Chairs
Natalia Díaz Rodríguez Ernesto Jiménez Ruiz Dagmar Groman Freddy Lecue
Derek Doran Local Organization
Program Committee
Vito Walter Anelli Jiaoyan Chen Bernardo Cuenca Grau Vincenzo Cutrona Elvira Domínguez Ivan Donadello Monireh Ebrahimi Vasilis Efthymiou Eleonora Giunchiglia Pascal Hitzler Andreas Holzinger Stefen Hölldobler Kristian Kersting Luis Lamb Thomas Lukasiewicz Carlos Maestre Pasquale Minervini Summaya Mumtaz Erik Bryhn Heiko Paulheim Catia Pesquita Alina Petrova Md Kamruzzaman Sarker Michael Spranger Kavitha Srinivas Andreas Theodorou Frank Van Harmelen City, University of London ENSTA Paris Institut Polytechnique Paris City, University of London University of Vienna CortAIx Thales Wright State University
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Northwestern University We thank all members of the program committee, additional reviewers, authors and local organizers for their eforts. We would also like to acknowledge that the work of the workshop organisers was greatly simplified by using the EasyChair conference management system and the CEUR open-access publication service.