PEER2025 Program

The 4th Workshop on Processing and Evaluation Event Representations (PEER2025) will be held at University of Rochester on April 18, 2025. Both talks and breaks will be held on the second floor of Rush Rhees Library (map) in the Humanities Center (Conference Room D).

  • 09:00–09:45
    Breakfast

  • 09:45–10:00
    Opening Remarks

  • 10:00–11:00
    Binding and quantifying representations of states, processes, and events

    Alexis Wellwood (USC)

  • 11:00–11:30
    Coffee Break

  • 11:30–11:50
    Visual Perception and 4-place Event Representations in Preschoolers and Infants

    Ekaterina A. Khlystova (UCLA) , Alexander Williams (UMD) , Jeffrey Lidz (UMD) , Laurel Perkins (UCLA)

  • 11:50–12:10
    Experimentally extracting implicit instruments

    Ashlyn Winship (Cornell) , Zander Lynch (Cornell) , John R Starr (Cornell) , Yifan Wu (Cornell) , Lucas Y. Li (Cornell) , Marten van Schijndel (Cornell)

  • 12:10–13:10
    Lunch

  • 13:10–14:10
    Events, indexes, and hippocampal memory

    Ellen Lau (UMD)

  • 14:10–14:40
    Coffee Break

  • 14:40–15:10
    Lightning Talks 1

  • 15:15–15:45
    Lightning Talks 2

  • 15:45–16:15
    Coffee Break

  • 16:15–16:35
    Event Structure Shapes How Humans Summarize Naturalistic Narratives

    Claire Sun (Rochester) , Coraline Rinn Iordan (Rochester)

  • 16:35–16:55
    Understanding Events in Multimodal Data Through Question Answering

    Alexander Martin (JHU) , Kate Sanders (JHU) , Reno Kriz (JHU) , David Etter (Etter Solutions) , Jimena Guallar-Blasco (JHU) , Hannah Recknor (JHU) , Cameron Carpenter (JHU) , Jingyang Lin (Rochester) , William Gantt Walden (JHU) , Benjamin Van Durme (Microsoft, JHU)

  • 16:55–17:15
    Cross-Document Event-Keyed Summarization

    William Gantt Walden (JHU) , Pavlo Kuchmiichuk (Rochester) , Alexander Martin (JHU) , Chihsheng Jin (Rochester) , Angela Cao (Rochester) , Claire Sun (Rochester) , Curisia Allen (Rochester) , Aaron Steven White (Rochester)

  • 17:15–17:30
    Closing Remarks

  • 18:00–22:00
    Dinner at Strangebird (authors and organizers only)