Thursday July 27, 2017
08:00 - 08:45 AM: Registration and light breakfast
08:45 - 09:00 AM: Welcome & logistics, Dipanjan Das (Google)
09:00 - 09:40 AM: Keynote, Fernando Pereira (Google)
Session 1 (session chair: Emily Pitler)
09:45 - 09:55 AM: Faculty talk, Yejin Choi (University of Washington)
09:55 - 10:05 AM: Faculty talk, Brendan O'Connor (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
10:05 - 10:15 AM: Faculty talk, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (Cornell University)
10:15 - 10:45 AM: Q&A 1
10:45 - 11:15 AM: Break
Session 2 (session chair: Kristina Toutanova)
11:15 - 11:25 AM: Faculty talk, Mohit Bansal (UNC Chapel Hill)
11:25 - 11:35 AM: Faculty talk, Yung-Nung (Vivian) Chen ( National Taiwan University)
11:35 - 11:45 AM: Faculty talk, Mausam (IIT Delhi)
11:45 - 11:55 AM: Faculty talk, Partha Pratim Talukdar (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
11:55 - 12:15 PM: Q&A 2
12:15 - 01:30 PM: Lunch
01:30 - 02:00 PM: Keynote, Cinar Sahin (Google)
02:00 - 03:00 PM: Breakouts - Question Answering | Dialog | Representation Learning
03:00 - 03:20 PM: Break
03:20 - 04:10 PM: Report from Breakout Sessions
Session 3 (session chair: Michael Collins)
04:10 - 04:20 PM: Faculty talk, Yoav Artzi (Cornell University)
04:20 - 04:30 PM: Faculty talk, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (Ohio State University)
04:30 - 04:40 PM: Faculty talk, Alan Ritter (Ohio State University)
04:40 - 05:00 PM: Q&A 3
05:00 - 05:30 PM: Keynote, Matthew Gray (Google)
05:30 - 07:30 PM: Poster session & reception
Friday July 28, 2017
Session 4 (session chair: Neil Houlsby)
09:00 - 09:30 AM: Keynote, Srini Narayanan (Google Research)
09:30 - 09:40 AM: Faculty talk, Sameer Singh (University of California, Irvine)
09:40 - 09:50 AM: Faculty talk, Barbara Plank (University of Groningen)
09:50 - 10:00 AM: Annie Louis (University of Edinburgh)
10:00 - 10:10 AM: Faculty talk, Dirk Hovy (University of Copenhagen)
10:10 - 10:20 AM: Faculty talk, Ivan Titov (University of Amsterdam / University of Edinburgh)
10:20 - 10:45 AM: Q&A 4
10:45 - 11:00 AM: Break
11:00 - 11:30 AM: Leave for cruise*
11:30 - 11:50 AM: Boarding for cruise
12:00 - 02:00 PM: Cruise and lunch
02:00 - 02:30 PM: Return to Google*
02:30 - 03:00 PM: Keynote, Jakob Uszkoreit (Google)
Session 5 (session chair: Ankur Parikh)
03:00 - 03:10 PM: Faculty talk, Sam Bowman (NYU)
03:10 - 03:20 PM: Faculty talk, Wei Xu (Ohio State University)
03:20 - 03:30 PM: Faculty talk, Marine Carpuat (University of Maryland)
03:30 - 03:40 PM: Faculty talk, Kevin Gimpel (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)
03:40 - 04:00 PM: Q&A 5
04:00 - 04:30 PM: Q&A & Wrap up