| Sunday, December 10th |
| 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Workshop registration |
| 18:00 - 20:00 |
| Welcome reception by the Pool! |
| Monday, December 11th, 2006 |
| 08:00 - 08:15 |
| Opening remarks, Mazin Gilbert |
| 08:15 - 09:00 |
| Keynote: Steve Young - Reinforcement learning for spoken dialog systems (Download Presentation Notes - PDF) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
| Invited Tutorial I, John Makhoul – Information extraction from speech (Download Presentation Notes - PDF) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
| Invited Tutorial II, Dragomir R. Radev - Graph-based methods for language processing and information retrieval (Download Presentation Notes - PPT) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
| Break |
| 10:30 - 12:30 |
| Poster Session I, Information Extraction And Retrieval |
| 12:30 - 13:30 |
| Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
| Invited Tutorial III, Dan Moldovan – Question/answering from speech |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
| Invited Tutorial IV, Michael McTear – Spoken language understanding for conversational dialog systems (Download Presentation Notes - PPT) |
| 14:30 - 16:30 |
| Poster Session II, Spoken Language Understanding |
| 16:30 - 18:00 |
| Spoken Language Technology Demonstration Session |
| Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 |
| 08:15 - 09:00 |
| Keynote: David Nahamoo - Speech Technology Opportunities and Challenges (Download Presentation Notes - PPT) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
| Invited Tutorial I, Mike Philips – Applications of spoken language technology and systems (Download Presentation Notes - PPT) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
| Invited Tutorial II, Elizabeth Strand - Designing Voice User Interfaces: Evidence from the Field (Download Presentation Notes - PDF) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
| Break |
| 10:30 - 12:30 |
| Poster Session I, Spoken and Multimodal Dialog Systems and Applications |
| 12:30 - 13:30 |
| Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
| Invited Tutorial III, Herve Bourlard – Understanding and Modeling Communication Scenes (Download Presentation Notes - PDF) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
| Invited Tutorial IV, Pascale Fung - Multilingual language processing (Download Presentation Notes - PDF) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
| Break |
| 15:00 - 17:00 |
| Poster Session II, Dialog Management |
| 17:00 - 18:00 |
| Panel Discussion, Chairs: Roberto Pieraccini, Roger Moore |
| 18:30 - 21:30 |
| Aruba-Style Banquet on the Beach! |
| Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 |
| 08:15 - 09:00 |
| Keynote: Kevin Knight – Spoken Language Translation (Download Presentation Notes - PDF) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
| Invited Tutorial I, Srinivas Bangalore – Widening the NLP pipeline for Spoken Language Processing (Download Presentation Notes - PDF) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
| Invited Tutorial II, Johanna Moore - Spoken Language Generation (Download Presentation Notes - PPT) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
| Break |
| 10:30 - 12:20 |
| Poster Session I, Machine Translation |
| 12:20 - 12:30 |
| Closing remarks, Hermann Ney (Download Presentation Notes - PDF) |
