NLPCC 2017 Program at a Glance

Time	Activities	Sites
Notes	DUT ICC: DUT International Convention Center（大连理工大学国际会议中心） DIFCC: Dalian International Finance Conference Center（大连国际金融会议中心）
Nov. 7, 2017, Tuesday
14:30-17:30	ADL 86 Registration	DUT ICC
Nov. 8, 2017, Wednesday
08:00-10:00	ADL 86 Registration	DUT ICC
08:30-09:00	Opening Ceremony, Group Photo	Lecture Hall 2F, DUT ICC
09:00-12:00	Lecture 1: Towards Human-Computer Conversation Systems: Applications and Challenges	Same as above
12:00-14:00	Lunch	Banquet Room（宴会一厅）, DUT ICC
14:00-17:00	Lecture 2: Building Informational Bot (InfoBot) with Question Answering & Generation	Lecture Hall 2F, DUT ICC
Nov. 9, 2017, Thursday
09:00-12:00	Lecture 3: Deep Approaches to Semantic Text Matching	Same as above
12:00-14:00	Lunch	Banquet Room（宴会一厅）, DUT ICC
14:00-17:00	Lecture 4: Recent Advances in Deep Learning for Machine Translation	Lecture Hall 2F, DUT ICC
Nov. 10, 2017, Friday
09:00-12:00	Lecture 5: An Introduction to Neural Approaches to Natural Language Processing	Same as above
12:00-14:00	Lunch	Banquet Room（宴会一厅）, DUT ICC
14:00-17:00	Lecture 6: User Profiling for Building Intelligent Bots	Lecture Hall 2F, DUT ICC
17:00-17:20	Closing Ceremony	Same as above
Nov. 10, 2017, Friday
10:00-20:00	NLPCC 2017 Registration	DIFCC
17:00-19:00	Dinner	1F Sea of Clouds Pavilion（1F海雲轩），3F Auspicious Pavilion（3F鸿鸣阁）, DIFCC
19:30-22:00	TCCI Conference(TCCI Member ONLY)	2F Lecture Hall1（2F阶梯教室1）, DIFCC
19:00-22:00	Poster and Industry Exhibition Arrangement	1F Joyous Gathering Palace B（1F 聚和宫B区）, DIFCC
Nov. 11, 2017, Saturday
08:00-10:00	NLPCC 2017 Registration	DIFCC
08:30-09:00	NLPCC 2017 Opening Ceremony Chair: TBD	1F Joyous Gathering Palace A（1F 聚和宫A区）, DIFCC
09:00-10:00	Invited Talk: Understanding Visual Scenes By Prof. Mirella Lapata	Same as above
10:00-10:20	Group Photo	DIFCC
10:20-10:40	Coffee/Tea Break
10:40-11:40	Invited Talk: From Symbolic to Neural Approaches to NLP – Case Studies of Machine Reading and Dialogue By Dr. Jianfeng Gao	1F Joyous Gathering Palace A（1F 聚和宫A区）, DIFCC
11:40-12:10	Industrial Forum Chair: TBD	Same as above
12:00-14:00	Lunch Break	1F Sea of Clouds Pavilion（1F海雲轩），3F Auspicious Pavilion（3F鸿鸣阁）, DIFCC
14:00-15:20	NLP Fundamentals I Chair: TBD	1F Joyous Gathering Palace A（1F 聚和宫A区）, DIFCC
	Machine Translation I Chair: TBD	2F Meeting Room 5（2F 5号会议室）, DIFCC
	Shared Task Workshop Chair: TBD	2F Meeting Room 6（2F 6号会议室）, DIFCC
	Student Workshop Chair: TBD	2F Meeting Room 7（2F 7号会议室）, DIFCC
15:20-15:40	Coffee/Tea Break
15:40-17:10	NLP Fundamentals II Chair: TBD	1F Joyous Gathering Palace A（1F 聚和宫A区）, DIFCC
	Summarization/Text Mining Chair: TBD	2F Meeting Room 5（2F 5号会议室）, DIFCC
	Shared Task Workshop Chair: TBD	2F Meeting Room 6（2F 6号会议室）, DIFCC
	Student Workshop Chair: TBD	2F Meeting Room 7（2F 7号会议室）, DIFCC
17:30-19:00	Poster/Demo Presentations	1F Joyous Gathering Palace A（1F 聚和宫A区）, DIFCC
19:00-21:00	Banquet	Same as above
Nov. 12, 2017, Sunday
08:30-09:30	Invited Talk: Squashing Computational Linguistics By Prof. Noah Smith Chair: TBD	1F Joyous Gathering Palace A（1F 聚和宫A区）, DIFCC
09:30-10:40	Best Papers Chair: TBD	1F Joyous Gathering Palace A（1F 聚和宫A区）, DIFCC
10:40-11:00	Coffee/Tea Break
11:00-12:00	Invited Talk: Natural Language Processing and Its Applications at Baidu By Dr. Hua Wu	1F Joyous Gathering Palace A（1F 聚和宫A区）, DIFCC
12:00-13:30	Lunch Break	1F Sea of Clouds Pavilion（1F海雲轩），3F Auspicious Pavilion（3F鸿鸣阁）, DIFCC
13:30-15:10	Machine Learning Chair: TBD	2F Meeting Room 5（2F 5号会议室）, DIFCC
	Information Extraction/KG Chair: TBD	2F Meeting Room 6（2F 6号会议室）, DIFCC
	Chatbot/QA Chair: TBD	2F Meeting Room 7（2F 7号会议室）, DIFCC
	Alibaba Workshop Chair: TBD	1F Joyous Gathering Palace A（1F 聚和宫A区）, DIFCC
15:10-15:40	Coffee/Tea Break
15:40-17:00	Social Network Chair: TBD	2F Meeting Room 5（2F 5号会议室）, DIFCC
	Machine Translation II Chair: TBD	2F Meeting Room 6（2F 6号会议室）, DIFCC
	NLP Applications Chair: TBD	2F Meeting Room 7（2F 7号会议室）, DIFCC
	Alibaba Workshop Chair: TBD	1F Joyous Gathering Palace A（1F 聚和宫A区）, DIFCC
17:00-19:00	Dinner	1F Sea of Clouds Pavilion（1F海雲轩），3F Auspicious Pavilion（3F鸿鸣阁）, DIFCC

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