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WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Thursday, June 8, 2006 | |
| 9:00–9:30 | Welcome, Introduction by Nick Webb [ slides ] |
| 9:30–10:30 | Invited Talk by Heather McCallum-Bayliss [ slides ] |
| 10:30–11:00 | Break |
| 11:00–11:30 | Contextual phenomena and thematic relations in database QA dialogues: results from a Wizard-of-Oz Experiment [ slides | paper ] Núria Bertomeu, Hans Uszkoreit, Anette Frank, Hans-Ulrich Krieger and Brigitte Jörg |
| 11:30–12:00 | WoZ Simulation of Interactive Question Answering [ slides | paper ] Tsuneaki Kato, Jun’ichi Fukumoto, Fumito Masui and Noriko Kando |
| 12:00–12:30 | Summary and Discussion: User's role in QA: What can they do, what should we model? (Chair: Nick Webb) |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00–15:00 | Invited Talk by Jim Hieronymus [ slides ] |
| 15:00–15:30 | Modeling Reference Interviews as a Basis for Improving Automatic QA Systems [ slides | paper ] Nancy J. McCracken, Anne R. Diekema, Grant Ingersoll, Sarah C. Harwell, Eileen E. Allen, Ozgur Yilmazel and Elizabeth D. Liddy |
| 15:30–16:00 | Break |
| 16:00–16:30 | Enhanced Interactive Question-Answering with Conditional Random Fields [ slides | paper ] Andrew Hickl and Sanda Harabagiu |
| 16:30–17:00 | Summary and Discussion: Domain modeling: How Much Can We or Should We Capture? (Chair: Jim Hieronymus) |
Friday, June 9, 2006 | |
| 9:00–9:05 | Welcome, Day One Summary by Nick Webb |
| 9:05–9:30 | NSF Funding Opportunities by Tanya Korelsky [ slides ] |
| 9:30–10:30 | Invited Talk by Bill Woods [ slides ] |
| 10:30–11:00 | Break |
| 11:00–11:30 | A Data Driven Approach to Relevancy Recognition for Contextual Question Answering [ slides | paper ] Fan Yang, Junlan Feng and Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio |
| 11:30–12:00 | Answering questions of Information Access Dialogue (IAD) task using ellipsis handling of follow-up questions [ slides | paper ] Jun’ichi Fukumoto |
| 12:00–12:30 | Summary and Discussion: IQA vs. IR (and Relevance Feedback) vs. Dialogue Systems (Chair: Tomek Strzalkowski) |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00–15:00 | Invited Talk by Tomek Strzalkowski [ slides ] |
| 15:00–15:30 | User-Centered Evaluation of Interactive Question Answering Systems [ slides | paper ] Diane Kelly, Paul Kantor, Emile Morse, Jean Scholtz and Ying Sun |
| 15:30–16:00 | Break |
| 16:00–16:30 | Summary and Discussion: Evaluation of IQA: Subjective vs. Objective? (Chair: Diane Kelly) |
| 16:30–17:30 | Roadmap Construction (Chair: Nick Webb) |