Programme

5th EMLS Summer School

Monday, 12th of July

8.30 Registration
IKP Entrance
9.00 Opening Session
Invited Lecture: Ian McCowan - The AMI Project
IKP Lecture Room
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Labs I (1st part)
Tutorial 1: IKP Pavilion
Tutorial 2: IKP Computer Pool
12.30 Common Lunch
13.00 Labs I (2nd part)
Tutorial 1: IKP Pavilion
Tutorial 2: IKP Computer Pool
15.00 Student Presentations I
Vaclav Nemcik, MU Brno: Anaphora Resulution for Czech
Dennis Mehay (KU Leuven): Automatic Classification of Semantic Roles
IKP Lecture Room
16.00 Labs II (until 19.30)
Tutorial 4: IKP Computer Pool
Tutorial 5: University Computer Centre

Tuesday, 13th of July

9.00 Labs III
Tutorial 1: IKP Pavilion
Tutorial 3: IKP Computer Pool
12.30 Lunch Break
13.30 Labs IV
Tutorial 4: IKP Computer Pool
Tutorial 5: University Computer Centre
Tutorial 6: IKP Pavilion
17.00 Student Presentations II (until 19.00)
Tomas Capek (MU Brno): SAFT - A Software Module for Semantic Tagging Using WordNet
Marek Grac (MU Brno): A morphological analyzer for Slovak
Nico Juhasz (Universität Stuttgart): Text-to-Speech-Syntheses - A Version for German TTS-Syntheses
Yi Pan (KU Leuven): Tools for a Sentence Compressor and an English Grammar for ShaRPa
IKP Lecture Hall and IKP Pavilion

Wednesday, 14th of July

9.00 Labs V
Tutorial 7: IKP Pavilion
Tutorial 8: IKP Computer Pool and Lecture Room in IKP Pavilion
12.30 Lunch Break
13.00 Poster Session
Yin Sung (KU Leuven): Recognizing Directory Information
Georgi Petrov (KU Leuven): Training an ID3 Tagger for a Swedish TTS-System
Yanfen Hao (KU Leuven): Switchboard Language Model Improvement with Conversational Data from Gigaword
Umer Imtiaz (KU Leuven): Experimental Results for a Different Feature Extraction Method in Speech Recognition
Karina Gössl (Universität Bonn): Sarcasm and Lengthening Effects - A preliminary acoustic study.
Xiuli Jing (KU Leuven): Evaluation of Headline Generation
Cheng Dezhi (KU Leuven): Music Reception of Cochlear Implant Recipients
Yi Zhou (KU Leuven): An Implementation of a Fixed-point Digital Filter/Filterbank for Cochlear Implants
Angeliki Papgiannopoulou (KU Leuven): Optimizing and Localizing a rule-based approach to subtitle generation
Wen Zhao (KU Leuven): Building a Chinese Language Model
Shu-Ju Lee (Universität Bonn): Coordinating Conjunctions as an indicator of text type in German?
IKP Entrance Hall
15.00 Labs VI
Tutorial 5: University Computer Centre
Tutorial 6: IKP Computer Pool
18.30 Social Event
Town Hall Reception

Thursday, 15th of July

9.00 Labs VII
Tutorial 7: IKP Pavilion
Tutorial 8: IKP Computer Pool and Lecture Room in Pavilion
12.30 Lunch Break
13.00 Student Presentations III
Simon Meers (KU Leuven): A Dialogue System for a Railway Application for Dutch I
Kamakshi Rajagopal (KU Leuven): A Dialogue System for a Railway Application for Dutch II
IKP Lecture Room
14.00 Social Event
Boat Excursion

Friday, 16th of July

8.30 Labs VIII
Tutorial 7: IKP Pavilion
Tutorial 8: IKP Computer Pool
12.00 Closing Session (until 13.00)
Presentation of Tutorial Results
IKP Lecture Hall
15.00 EU Masters Board Meeting (until 17.00)