Schedule
Tuesday
Tuesday
8:30 Registration + Coffee/Gipfeli
Foyer
9:00 Welcome Message: Mark Cieliebak
Room: TN E0.46 – E0.54
9:30 Keynote: Lisa Gibbs
Room: TN E0.46 – E0.54
10:15 Break, change room
10:45 3 Parallel Sessions
Track 1 Room: TN E0.46
Didier Orel, Titus Plattner and Marcel Blattner: NLP Activities at Tamedia
Ahmad Aghaebrahimian: Hyperparameter Tuning for Deep Learning
Nils Schaetti: Author Verification in Stream of Text with Echo State Network-based Recurrent Neural Models
Track 2 Room: TN E0.54
Timo Spring, Jacky Casas, Karl Daher, Elena Mugellini and Omar Abou Khaled: Empathic Response Generation in Chatbots
Christoph Süess: Chatbots usability – Dos and don’ts
Laura Gander, Antonella Bolt and Ursula Stäuble: Customer driven architecture for a Chatbot
Track 3 Room: TN E0.58
Tatyana Ruzsics, Massimo Lusetti, Anne Göhring, Tanja Samardzic and Elisabeth Stark: Neural Text Normalization with Adapted Decoding and POS Features
Christof Traber, Schamai Safra, Bleicke Holm, Dominic Schnyder and Philipp Lichtenberg: Text-to-Speech (TTS) for Seven Swiss German Dialects
Stephan Wick and Samuel Läubli: Neural Machine Translation for Increased Human Translation Efficiency at Migros Bank
Track 1 Room: TN E0.46
Track 2 Room: TN E0.54
Track 3 Room: TN E0.58
Didier Orel, Titus Plattner and Marcel Blattner: NLP Activities at Tamedia
Timo Spring, Jacky Casas, Karl Daher, Elena Mugellini and Omar Abou Khaled: Empathic Response Generation in Chatbots
Tatyana Ruzsics, Massimo Lusetti, Anne Göhring, Tanja Samardzic and Elisabeth Stark: Neural Text Normalization with Adapted Decoding and POS Features
Ahmad Aghaebrahimian: Hyperparameter Tuning for Deep Learning
Christoph Süess: Chatbots usability – Dos and don’ts
Christof Traber, Schamai Safra, Bleicke Holm, Dominic Schnyder and Philipp Lichtenberg: Text-to-Speech (TTS) for Seven Swiss German Dialects
Nils Schaetti: Author Verification in Stream of Text with Echo State Network-based Recurrent Neural Models
Laura Gander, Antonella Bolt and Ursula Stäuble: Customer driven architecture for a Chatbot
Stephan Wick and Samuel Läubli: Neural Machine Translation for Increased Human Translation Efficiency at Migros Bank
12:15 Lunch Break
13:30 Poster Presentations
14:00 Poster Session
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Workshops (90-120 min)
Room: TN E0.46
Organizer: Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services: 1st Business NLP Workshop
Room: TN E0.54
Organizers: UZH, ZHAW: Joint Actions for Swiss German
Room: TN E0.58
Organizers: SpinningBytes AG, ZHAW: Building a Simple Chatbot With Dialogflow
Room: TN E0.46
Room: TN E0.54
Room: TN E0.58
Organizer: Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services: 1st Business NLP Workshop
Organizers: UZH, ZHAW: Joint Actions for Swiss German
Organizers: SpinningBytes AG, ZHAW: Building a Simple Chatbot With Dialogflow
Wednesday
17:00 END
Wednesday
8:30 Registration + Coffee/Gipfeli
Foyer
9:00 Welcome Message: Mark Cieliebak
Room: TN E0.46 – E0.54
9:30 Keynote: Hinrich Schütze
Room: TN E0.46 – E0.54
10:15 Break, change room
10:45 2 Parallel Sessions + Workshop Summarization
Track 1 Room: TN E0.46
Deepanwita Datta, Manajit Chakraborty and Aveek Biswas: Your Click Matters: Enhancing Click-based Image Retrieval performance through Collaborative Filtering
Aaron Richiger and Sara Wick: Automated Data Extraction from Documents for Analysis using Machine Learning
Gabriel Luthier and Andrei Popescu-Belis: PLACAT: A user-friendly question answering system for smart speaker devices
Track 2 Room: TN E0.54
Fabio Rinaldi, Philipp Kuntschik, Gottowik Jürgen, Mathias Leddin, Raul Rodriguez Esteban, Albert Weichselbraun, Tilia Ellendorff, Nico Colic and Lenz Furrer: MedMon: social media analytics for an healthcare application
Gion Linder and Jacqueline Blaser: Success of ASR (automatic speech recognition) in the field of subtitling
Andrew Marritt: Building an inductive coding service for employee feedback
Shared Task Room: TN E0.58
Dominik Fretel, Lukas Neukom, Manfred Vogel, FHNW: Shared Task on German Text Summarization
Track 1 Room: TN E0.46
Track 2 Room: TN E0.54
Shared Task Room: TN E0.58
Deepanwita Datta, Manajit Chakraborty and Aveek Biswas: Your Click Matters: Enhancing Click-based Image Retrieval performance through Collaborative Filtering
Fabio Rinaldi, Philipp Kuntschik, Gottowik Jürgen, Mathias Leddin, Raul Rodriguez Esteban, Albert Weichselbraun, Tilia Ellendorff, Nico Colic and Lenz Furrer: MedMon: social media analytics for an healthcare application
Dominik Fretel, Lukas Neukom, Manfred Vogel, FHNW: Shared Task on German Text Summarization
Aaron Richiger and Sara Wick: Automated Data Extraction from Documents for Analysis using Machine Learning
Gion Linder: Success of ASR (automatic speech recognition) in the field of subtitling
Gabriel Luthier and Andrei Popescu-Belis: PLACAT: A user-friendly question answering system for smart speaker devices
Andrew Marritt: Building an inductive coding service for employee feedback
12:15 Lunch Break
13:30 Legal Discussion: Perica Grasarevic (Laux Lawyers AG)
Room: TN E0.46
14:00 Demo Presentations
Room: TN E0.46 – E0.54
14:30 Demo Session
Foyer
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Keynote: Mona Diab
Room: TN E0.46 – E0.54
16:45 Closing Statement
17:15 Apero
18:45 END