INVITED SESSION, SESSION 14: SET AND MATCH, Monday 4 July 2011 14:00 - 15:00

Session 2: Invited Overviews

By adopting the name Human Language Technology for one of its flagship programs, ARPA intended to included everything that is involved in understanding and/or generating natural human language. In the Information Age, more and more resources are being devoted to collecting, retrieving, and using information (text and speech) in digital form. The time is ripe to multiply the power of human-machi...

Opening Session Stream: Contributed Session Plenary Session Stream: Plenary Lectures Invited Session

Stream: Contributed session Plenary session Chair: Laura Palagi, Dipartimento di Ingegneria informatica automatica e gestionale, La Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Ariosto, 25, 00185, Roma, Italy, [email protected] Chair: Fabio Schoen, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Firenze, via di Santa Marta, 3, 50139, Firenze, Italy, [email protected] Wednes...

Session 14: Government Panel

The Workshop ended with a first-time ever, hour-long Government Panel session organized at the request of the Workshop Program Committee, which wanted to hear from some of the government people present. The panel consisted of five individuals, each invited to be provocative and each given five minutes to offer his or her personal perspectives. The floor was subsequently thrown open for a genera...

2011 SSM Poster Session

1 Sex Differences in Accompaniment and Technology Usage in a Coffee Shop Margaret Diamond, Chloe Kingery, Jessica McAbee, and Jessica Thompson, Department of Psychology Gender differences in accompaniment and technology use were observe in a coffee shop close to a college campus. Young adults (N=232) were observed to see if there was a difference in having accompaniment or sitting along. They w...

AVSS 2011 demo session