| Day 1, Wednesday 28th May 2008 | 
| 28 May (Detailed Programme) (pdf) | 
| Schedule | 
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| 10:00-10:40 | 
Opening Ceremony  | 
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| 10:45-11:45 | 
Antonio Zampolli Prize Talk  | 
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| 10:45-12:05 | 
Coffee Break | 
| 12:05-13:25 | 
 4 Oral & 3 Poster Sessions in Parallel  | 
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 O1 - Information Extraction and Question Answering  | 
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 O2 - LRs: Infrastructures, Projects, Centers   | 
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 O3 -Corpus, Lexicon and Evaluation   | 
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 O4 - Multiparty and non-Verbal Communication   | 
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 P1 - Corpus Construction and Annotation    | 
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   P2 - LRs for Specific Domains: Bio-Medicine and Chemistry   | 
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   P3 - Syntactically Annotated Resources and Related Tools  | 
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| 13:30-14:40 | 
Lunch Break | 
| 14:40-16:20 | 
4 Oral & 4 Poster Sessions in Parallel  | 
 
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  | O5 - Spatio-Temporal Annotation | 
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  | O7 - Document Classification | 
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  | O8 - Multimodal Annotation Tools | 
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  | P4 - Named Entity Recognition, Information Extraction and Document Classification | 
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  | P5 - Multi-Word Expressions | 
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  | P6 - Ontologies and Knowledge | 
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  | P7 - Term Identification/Extraction and Terminological Databases | 
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| 16:20-16:40 | 
Coffee Break | 
| 16:40-18:20 | 
  4 Oral Sessions and 1 Poster Session in Parallel  | 
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    | O9 - Lexicon, Corpus and Semantics | 
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    | O10 - Multimodal and Speech Data over the Web | 
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    | O11 - Coreference and Discourse | 
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    | O12 - Named Entity Recognition | 
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  | P8 - Information Extraction, Question Answering and Document Classification | 
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| 18:20-18:25 | 
5-minute Break | 
| 18:25-19:45 | 
 1 Panel, 2 Oral Sessions and 4 Poster Sessions in Parallel  | 
| 18:25-19:45 | 
 Panel: Funding Agencies in Support to Language Processing: from the Regional to the Multinational Scale  
  Moderators: Joseph Mariani and Nicoletta Calzolari
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  | O13 - Parallel and Multilingual Resources | 
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  | O14 - Evaluation Tools and Methodologies | 
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  | P9 - Authoring Tools and Related Resources | 
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  | P10 - Coreference and Discourse | 
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  | P11 - Tools, Systems, Applications | 
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  | P12 - Lexical Resources and Tools | 
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| Day 2, Thursday 29th May 2008 | 
| 29 May (Detailed Programme) (pdf) | 
| Schedule | 
Programme | 
Room | 
| 09:00-09:40 | 
Keynote Speech | 
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Julia Hirschberg:  Detecting Deceptive Speech: Requirements, Resources and Evaluation | 
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| 09:40-09:45 | 
5-minute Break | 
| 09:45-11:25 | 
 4 Oral Sessions and 1 Poster Session in Parallel  | 
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  | O15 - LRs: Large Programs, Policies, Strategies | 
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  | O16 - Biomedical Resources | 
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  | O17 - Semantics in Lexicons and Corpora | 
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  | O18 - Affect and Emotion in Speech | 
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  | P13 - Evaluation: Resources, Tools, Methodologies, Campaigns | 
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| 11:25-11:45 | 
Coffee Break | 
| 11:45-13:25 | 
 4 Oral Sessions and 1 Poster Session in Parallel  | 
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  | O19 - Opinion Mining and Summarization  | 
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  | O20 - Coreference and Discourse | 
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  | O21 - Semantic Resources and Acquisition | 
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  | O22 - Speaker and Dialect Identification | 
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  | P14 - Evaluation: Resources, Tools, Systems, Methodologies | 
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| 13:25-14:40 | 
Lunch Break | 
| 14:40-16:20 | 
 4 Oral Sessions and 3 Poster Sessions in Parallel  | 
 
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  | O23 - Corpus Annotation and Classification | 
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  | O24 - Machine Translation and Multilinguality | 
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  | O26 - Broadcast News Processing | 
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  | P15 - LR Infrastructures and Architectures | 
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  | P16 - LR National/International Projects, Organizational/Policy Issues | 
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  | P17 - Standards and Best Practices for LRs | 
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| 16:20-16:40 | 
Coffee Break | 
| 16:40-18:20 | 
 4 Oral Sessions and 2 Poster Sessions in Parallel  | 
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  | O28 - Machine Translation and Multilinguality | 
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  | O29 - Information Extraction and Question Answering | 
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  | O30 - Evaluation in Speech Processing | 
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  | P18 - Lexical Resources and Tools  | 
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  | P19 - Morphology, Syntax and Tools | 
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| 18:20-18:25 | 
5-minute Break | 
| 18:25-19:45 | 
 1 Panel, 3 Oral Sessions and 1 Poster Session in Parallel  | 
| 18:25-19:45 | 
Panel:  
Key Issues in Building a Common Language Resources and Tools Infrastructure    
  Moderator: Erhard Hinrichs | 
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  | O31 - Evaluation and Machine Translation | 
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  | O32 - Syntactically Annotated Corpora | 
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  | P20 - Multimodal, Multimedia and Subjective Corpus | 
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  | P21 - Tools and Data for Speech Systems Development | 
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| Day 3, Friday 30 th May 2008 | 
| 30 May (Detailed Programme) (pdf) | 
| Schedule | 
Programme | 
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| 09:00-09:40 | 
Keynote Speech | 
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates: The Web as a Semantic Source | 
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| 09:40-09:45 | 
5-minute Break | 
| 09:45-11:25 | 
 4 Oral Sessions and 3 Poster Sessions in Parallel  | 
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  | 035 - Semantics and Semantic Annotation | 
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  | O36 - Evaluation Methodologies | 
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  | O37 - Lexicons, Corpora and Acquisition | 
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  | P22 - Speech Corpus in Various Environments | 
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  | P23 - Speech Corpus in Various Languages | 
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  | P24 - Speech Corpus Design Methodology and Tools | 
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| 11:25-11:45 | 
Coffee Break | 
| 11:45-13:25 | 
 4 Oral Sessions and 3 Poster Sessions in Parallel  | 
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  | O39 - Multilingual Resources | 
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  | O40 - Tools for Corpus Construction and Annotation | 
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  | P25 - Morphology and Morphosyntax | 
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  | P26 - Semantics, Semantic Resources and Semantic Annotation | 
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  | P27 - Temporal Annotation | 
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| 13:30-14:40 | 
Lunch Break | 
| 14:40-16:00 | 
 1 Panel, 3 Oral Sessions and 1 Poster Session in Parallel  | 
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  Panel: The Role and Mission of Data Centers, Cost Principles int the creation and Sharing of Language Resources: Why there is no such thing as a free lunch?  
 Moderators: Khalid Choukri & Christopher Cieri  | 
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  | O42 - Multimodal Dialogue | 
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  | O44 - Corpora and Evaluation Resources | 
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  | P28 - Multilinguality and Machine Translation | 
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| 16:00-16:20 | 
Coffee Break | 
| 16:20-17:20 | 
  4 Oral Sessions and 2 Poster Sessions in Parallel   | 
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  | O46 - Evaluation Methodologies | 
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  | O47 - Authoring Tools and Corpora | 
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  | O48 - TV and Video Processing | 
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  | P29 - Semantic Resources and their Elicitation | 
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  | P30 -Sentiment and Opinion Analysis | 
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| 17:20-17:25 | 
5-minute Break | 
| 17:25-18:20 | 
Closing Session by Programme Committee | 
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