Technical Program

Note: Times and locations are subject to change.

 
Monday, December 15
07:00 - 09:00
Registration and Signup TBD
09:00 - 09:30
Opening Ceremony and Welcome Address by Conference Chair TBD
09:30 - 10:30
Keynote: Keynote by Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento TBD
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30
Special Session: Spoken Language Technology: Challenges, Opportunity and Progress in India TBD
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 16:30
Spoken Language Technology for Development TBD
16:30 - 17:00
Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:30
Spoken Language Generation TBD
19:00 - 21:00
Welcome Reception: Cocktail and Dinner TBD
 
Tuesday, December 16
07:00 - 08:30
Breakfast
08:30 - 10:30
Tutorial: Rapid Language Adaptation Tools and Technologies for Multilingual Speech Processing Systems, Tanja Schultz, University of Karlsruhe and Carnegie Mellon University TBD
11:00 - 11:30
Lecture on Spoken Language Understanding: Frederic Bechet, University of Avignon, France TBD
11:30 - 13:00
Spoken Language Understanding TBD
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:30
Lecture on Spoken Dialog System: Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA TBD
14:30 - 16:00
Spoken Dialog Systems TBD
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00
Panel: Mobility, Multimodality, Multilinguality TBD
18:30 - 21:00
Gala Dinner and Cultural Program TBD
 
Wednesday, December 17
07:00 - 08:30
Breakfast
08:30 - 09:30
Keynote: Isabel Trancoso, INESC-ID, Portugal TBD
09:30 - 10:30
Discourse Connectives: Complexity of Dependencies at the Discourse Level and at the Sentence Level: Aravind K. Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, USA TBD
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Lecture on Summarization: Gerald Penn, University of Toronto TBD
11:30 - 13:00
Speech Document Summarization TBD
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:30
Perspectives in Statistical Language Modeling: Sanjeev Khudanpur, Johns Hopkins University, USA TBD
14:30 - 16:00
Topics in Speech and Language Modeling TBD
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00
Demonstration Session TBD
18:30 - 21:00
Conference Dinner TBD
 
Thursday, December 18
07:00 - 08:30
Breakfast
08:30 - 10:30
Tutorial on World Wide Telecom Web: Nitendra Rajput, IBM India TBD
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Lecture on Machine Translation: Khalil Simaan, University of Amsterdam TBD
11:30 - 13:00
Spoken Language Translation TBD
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:30
Lecture on Spoken Document Retrieval: Lin-Shan Lee, National University of Taiwan TBD
14:30 - 16:00
Spoken Document Retrieval TBD
16:00
Closing Remarks TBD