Suit Claims University Employee Dismissed Because of Anti-Muslim Discrimination

A former employee of Youngstown State University's Center for Student Progress filed suit this week claiming that his termination stemmed from discriminatory treatment against him because he is a Muslim.  The complaint (full text) in Jadun v. Youngstown Sate University, (ND OH, filed 1/23/2018)...

School District Sued Over Middle East Geography Curriculum

The parent of a New Jersey middle school student filed suit this week against The Chathams school district claiming that the Middle East and North Africa unit of the 7th-grade Geography class violates the Establishment Clause by promoting Islam.  The complaint (full text) in Hilsenrath v. School...

Learning End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog

End-to-end dialog systems, in which all components are learnt simultaneously, have recently obtained encouraging successes. However these were mostly on conversations related to chit-chat with no clear objective and for which evaluation is difficult. This paper proposes a set of tasks to test the...