NLPCC 2018 Program
Program at a Glance
| Date | Morning | Afternoon | Night |
| Aug. 25 | |||
| Aug. 26 | |||
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| Aug. 30 |
Program by Date
| Aug. 25, 2018 | ||
| 14:30-17:30 | Tutorials / CCF ADL 92 Onsite Registration | Academic Conference Center, Inner Mongolia University（内蒙古大学学术会议中心） |
| Aug. 26, 2018 | ||
| 08:00-10:00 | Tutorials / CCF ADL 92 Onsite Registration | Academic Conference Center, Inner Mongolia University（内蒙古大学学术会议中心） |
| 08:30-09:00 | Opening Ceremony, Group Photo | |
| 09:00-12:00 | Lecture 1: Recent Advances in Neural Machine Translation, Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia | Room 8, Academic Conference Center, Inner Mongolia University（内蒙古大学学术会议中心8号会议室） |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch | Aodu Food Plaza, Yon Ho, Sushi Beef Noodles (奥都美食广场永和豆浆大王和苏氏牛肉面) |
| 14:00-17:00 | Lecture 2: Multi-task Learning in Natural Language Processing, Xipeng Qiu, Fudan University | Room 8, Academic Conference Center, Inner Mongolia University（内蒙古大学学术会议中心8号会议室） |
| Aug. 27, 2018 | ||
| 09:00-12:00 | Lecture 3: Neural IR models: Interaction vs. Representation-based learning, Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal | Room 8, Academic Conference Center, Inner Mongolia University（内蒙古大学学术会议中心8号会议室） |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch | Aodu Food Plaza, Yon Ho, Sushi Beef Noodles (奥都美食广场永和豆浆大王和苏氏牛肉面) |
| 14:00-17:00 | Lecture 4: Joint Models for NLP, Yue Zhang, Westlake University | Room 8, Academic Conference Center, Inner Mongolia University（内蒙古大学学术会议中心8号会议室） |
| Aug. 28, 2018 | ||
| 09:00-12:00 | Lecture 5: Web Search User Behavior Modeling, Yiqun Liu, Tsinghua University | Room 8, Academic Conference Center, Inner Mongolia University（内蒙古大学学术会议中心8号会议室） |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch | Aodu Food Plaza, Yon Ho, Sushi Beef Noodles (奥都美食广场永和豆浆大王和苏氏牛肉面) |
| 14:00-17:00 | Lecture 6: Semantics of Knowledge Graph: From Science to Practice, Jie Bao, Memect | Room 8, Academic Conference Center, Inner Mongolia University（内蒙古大学学术会议中心8号会议室） |
| 17:00-17:20 | Closing Ceremony | Same as above |
| Aug. 28, 2018 | ||
| 09:00-20:00 | NLPCC 2018 Onsite Registration | Xinbin Building, Inner Mongolia Xincheng Hotel, Hohhot, China(中国，呼和浩特市，内蒙古新城宾馆，新宾楼) |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch | Banquet Hall (宴会厅) |
| 14:00-17:00 | Technical Workshop (Tencent) | Multi-function Meeting Hall (多功能厅) |
| 18:00-21:00 | AISpeech & NLPCC Academy Reception (Invited Only) | Building No. 1, Four Season Hall (新城宾馆1号楼四季厅) |
| 17:00-19:00 | Lenovo AI Night Cocktail Party (Invited Only) | Yingze Hall，2F，Yingbin Building（迎宾楼2层迎泽厅） |
| 17:00-19:00 | Dinner | Banquet Hall(宴会厅) |
| 19:30-22:40 | TCCI Annual Meeting | Multi-function Meeting Hall (多功能厅) |
| Aug. 29, 2018 | ||
| 08:00-12:00 | NLPCC 2018 Onsite Registration | Guobin North Building (国宾北楼) |
| 09:00-09:30 | NLPCC 2018 Opening Ceremony | International Banquet Hall (国宴厅) |
| 09:30-10:30 | Invited Talk: Charles Ling, Chair: Min Zhang | International Banquet Hall (国宴厅) |
| 10:30-10:50 | Group Photo | |
| 10:50-11:10 | Coffee/Tea Break | |
| 11:10-12:10 | Invited Talk: Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Chair: Dan Roth | International Banquet Hall (国宴厅) |
| 12:10-12:30 | Industrial Talk (1): AI Strong, Chair: Dongyan Zhao | International Banquet Hall (国宴厅) |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch Break | Banquet Hall (宴会厅), Scene a Café (咖啡苑) |
| 14:00-15:15 | NLP Fundamentals, Chair: Junhui Li NLP Applications, Chair: Hai Zhao Technical workshop (JD), Chair: Xiaodong He |
Multi-function Meeting Hall (多功能厅) Long Corridor Meeting Room No.7 (长廊7号厅) Long Corridor Meeting Room No.8 (长廊8号厅) |
| 14:00-15:20 | Shared Task Session, Chair: Lei Li | Long Corridor Meeting Room No.13 (长廊13号厅) |
| 13:30-15:15 | Student workshop, Chair: Minlie Huang | Long Corridor Meeting Room No.11 (长廊11号厅) |
| 15:15-15:45 | Coffee/Tea Break | |
| 15:45-17:15 | Entity/Relation Extraction, Chair: Sujian Li QA, Chair: Haofen Wang Shared Task Session, Chair: Kai Liu Technical workshop(JD), Chair: Xiaodong He |
Multi-function Meeting Hall (多功能厅) Long Corridor Meeting Room No.7 (长廊7号厅) Long Corridor Meeting Room No.13 (长廊13号厅) Long Corridor Meeting Room No.8 (长廊8号厅) |
| 15:40-17:30 | Student workshop, Chair: Jinsong Su | Long Corridor Meeting Room No.11 (长廊11号厅) |
| 17:30-19:00 | Poster/Demo Presentations (All English Main Track Posters, Chinese Main Track 107 and 116, Student workshop 1, 8 and 11) |
International Banquet Hall (国宴厅) |
| 19:00 | Award Ceremony, Chair: Chengqing Zong | International Banquet Hall (国宴厅) |
| 19:00-21:00 | Banquet & Industrial Speeches(CMOS, Leyan) Chair: Dongyan Zhao |
International Banquet Hall (国宴厅) |
| Aug. 30, 2018 | ||
| 08:30-09:30 | Invited Talk: Joyce Chai, Chair: Ming Zhou | International Banquet Hall (国宴厅) |
| 09:30-10:30 | Best Papers, Chair: Vincent Ng | International Banquet Hall (国宴厅) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee/Tea Break | |
| 10:45-11:45 | Invited Talk: Luo Si, Chair: Chengqing Zong | International Banquet Hall (国宴厅) |
| 11:45-12:00 | Industrial Talk (2): ABitAI Tech, Chair: Guodong Zhou | International Banquet Hall (国宴厅) |
| 12:00-12:15 | Industrial Talk (3): Liulishuo, Chair: Guodong Zhou | International Banquet Hall (国宴厅) |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch Break | Banquet Hall (宴会厅), Scene a Café (咖啡苑) |
| 13:30-15:00 | Machine Translation, Chair: Shujian Huang Emotion/Sentiment Classification, Chair: Rui Xia Conversational Bots/Generation, Chair: Rui Yan Technical workshop (Founder DP Lab) |
Multi-function Meeting Hall (多功能厅) Long Corridor Meeting Room No.7 (长廊7号厅) Long Corridor Meeting Room No.13 (长廊13号厅) Long Corridor Meeting Room No.8 (长廊8号厅) |
| 15:00-15:20 | Coffee/Tea Break | |
| 15:20-16:50 | Summarization/IE/Knowledge Graphs, Chair: Guilin Qi Text Mining/NLP for Social Network, Chair: Ruifeng Xu Word Embeddings/Machine Learning, Chair: Xu Sun Technical workshop (Sougou) |
Multi-function Meeting Hall (多功能厅) Long Corridor Meeting Room No.7 (长廊7号厅) Long Corridor Meeting Room No.13 (长廊13号厅) Long Corridor Meeting Room No.8 (长廊8号厅) |
| 16:50-17:00 | Coffee/Tea Break | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Closing Ceremony, Chair: Dongyan Zhao | Multi-function Meeting Hall (多功能厅) |
| 17:30-20:00 | Dinner | Banquet Hall(宴会厅) |
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