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