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Friday
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Friday, June 20th - YRRSDS informal pub gathering, 7:30pm: Barley's Ale House No.1
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First Day
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Saturday, June 21st
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8:30
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Registration / coffee
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9:00
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Reception session
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9:45
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Discussion session I
Topics:
a) Dialog strategy learning and dialog design
b) Next killer-apps
c) Multimodal systems
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11:30
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Summaries, discussion |
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11:45
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Industry/Company talks:
Tobias Göbel (VoiceObjects), Jason Williams (AT&T), Simona Gandrabur (Nuance)
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12:45
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Lunch + set up demos/posters |
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13:45
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Discussion Session II
a) Empirical approach - Training from dialog corpora
b) Realistic conversation - How to make SDS human-like?
c) Dialog system development |
15:30
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Summaries, discussion
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15:45 |
Introduction of Industry/Academic Panelists:
Alex Rudnicky (CMU), David Schlangen (University of Potsdam), Tim Paek (Microsoft)
Afternoon coffee + demo presentation session
(provides opportunity to talk to panelists) |
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16:45
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Industry/Academic Panel Session
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18:30
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Dinner: Blue Nile |
Second Day
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Sunday, June 22nd
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9:30
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Special session: Frameworks and Grand Challenges for Dialog System Evaluation
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11:30
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Close up meeting/discussion
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12:30
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Lunch
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Please
send comments to
yrr08-organizers _AT_ googlegroups _DOT_ com
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