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9:00 - 9:10Julia KiselevaOpening Organizers10 min
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9:10 - 9:40Search at FBFabrizio Silvestri, Facebook, LondonInvited Talk25 + 5
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9:40 - 10:10Deep Learning for Goal-Oriented Conversational UnderstandingDilek Hakkani-Tür, Google Research, Mountain ViewInvited Talk25 + 5
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10:10 - 10:30Building an Emotional conversation using Deep LearningNikita Smetanin, Replika.AI, Moscow, RussiaIndustry Talk15 + 5
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10:30 - 11:00Break
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11:00 - 11:20Aleksandr ChuklinConversational/Multiturn Question UnderstandingGary Ren, Microsoft AI, USAIndustry Talk15 + 5
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11:20 - 11:30Task-Oriented Query Reformulation with Reinforcement LearningRodrigo Nogueira and Kyunghyun Cho Accepted Paper7+3
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11:30 - 11:40Will this dialogue be unsuccessful? Prediction using audio featuresMargarita Kotti, Alexandros Papangelis and Yannis StylianouAccepted Paper7+3
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11:40 - 11:50LD-SDS: Towards an Expressive Spoken Dialogue System based on Linked-DataAlexandros Papangelis, Panagiotis Papadakos, Margarita Kotti, Yannis Stylianou, Yannis Tzitzikas and Dimitris Plexousakis Accepted Paper7+3
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11:50 - 12:00Conversational Exploratory Search via Interactive StorytellingSvitlana Vakulenko, Ilya Markov and Maarten de Rijke Accepted Paper7+3
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12:00 - 12:10Voice-based Data Exploration: Chatting with your DatabaseCarsten Binnig, Ugur Cetinemel, Prasetya Utama and Nathaniel Weir Accepted Paper7+3
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12:10 - 12:20Combining Search with Structured Data to Create a More Delightful User Experience in Open Domain DialogueKevin Bowden, Shereen Oraby, Jiaqi Wu, Amita Misra and Marilyn Walker Accepted Paper7+3
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12:30 - 14:00Lunch/Poster Session (for papers/industry talk/and posters)
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14:00 - 14:30Mikhail BurtsevDeep Learning for Reading ComprehensionRuslan Salakhutdinov, Apple AI & CMU, USAInvited Talk25 + 5
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14:30 - 15:00Grounding Neural Conversation Models into the Real WorldMichel Galley, Microsoft Research, RedmondInvited Talk25 + 5
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15:00 - 15:30A Theoretical Framework for Conversational SearchFilip Radlinski, Google Research, LondonInvited Talk25 + 5
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15:30 - 15:50Break
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15:50 - 16:10Alexey BorisovAlexa: Speak with your Computer – NaturallyFrode Sormo, Amazon Alexa, LondonIndustry Talk15 + 5
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16:10 - 17:00Panel disscusion:Maarten de Rijke, Claudia Hauff, Jeff Dalton, Michel GalleyPanel disscusion50 min
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17:00 - 18:00Breakout SessionBreakout Session1 hour
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18:00 - ...DrinksCasa Hotel - 2nd floor wine bar
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