CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Printer friendly version

Detailed information about the conference room equipment for presentations can be found in section 'venue'.

Sunday
(15th June)
16:00   IIS'08 Conference Registration at the DAGLEZJA Hotel starts.
19:00 - 22:00   Dinner


Monday
(16th June)
8:00 - 9:30   Breakfast
9:30 - 9:40   Conference opening speech
9:40 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:20   Break
11:20 - 12:40
12:40 - 14:00   Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 IT1 Invited Talk:
"Mining Event and State Sequences: a Social Science Perspective" by Gilbert Ritschard,
University of Geneva, Switzerland

Session Chair: Sławomir T. Wierzchoń
15:00 - 15:20   Coffee break
15:20 - 17:00
17:00 - 17:20   Break
17:20 - 18:00
19:00   Supper


Tuesday
(17th June)
7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 IT2 Invited Talk:
"Language Resources: Standardization, Interoperability, and Multi-Linguality" by Erhard Hinrichs,
University of Tübingen, Germany

Session Chair: Adam Przepiórkowski
9:30 - 9:40 Break
9:40 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:40
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 IT3 Invited Talk:
"Directed Graphical Models" by Marek J. Drużdżel,
Białystok Technical University, Poland, and University of Pittsburgh, USA


"Searching for Intelligent Behavior" by Jarosław Arabas and Paweł Cichosz,
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland


Session Chair: Krzysztof Trojanowski
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break
15:20 - 16:40
16:40 - 17:00 Break
17:00 - 18:20
19:00 Conference Dinner


Wednesday 
(18th June)
programme for the participants
of the main IIS'08 sessions
7:30 - 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:40
11:40 - 11:50 Break
11:50 - 12:50 IT4 Invited Talk:
"Semantic Composition for Speech Understanding" by Renato De Mori,
University of Avignon, France

Session Chair: Ryszard Gubrynowicz
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:20
15:20 - 15:30 Conference closing speech


Wednesday 
(18th June)
programme for the participants
of IELRT and SLUDS workshops
8:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:50
11:50 - 12:50 IT4 Invited Talk:
"Semantic Composition for Speech Understanding" by Renato De Mori,
University of Avignon, France

Session Chair: Ryszard Gubrynowicz
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 IT5 Invited Talk:
Interactive Open-Domain Question Answering by Tomek Strzałkowski,
SUNY Albany (State University of New York), USA

Session Chair: Agnieszka Mykowiecka
15:00 - 16:15
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:45
17:45 - 18:30 Panel on methodologies for the evaluation of NLU and spoken dialogue systems