Recordings

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Openings

Monday Opening

Tuesday Opening

Wednesday Closing

Keynote Presentations

Keynote: Multimodal Simultaneous Machine Translation

  • Speaker: Lucia Specia, Imperial College London

Keynote: A Guided Tour Through the Transformers Landscape

  • Speaker: Lewis Tunstall, Hugging Face
  • Slides

Keynote: From research to production—Enabling real world applications with Conversational AI

  • Speakers: Zenodia Charpy and Adam Henryk Grzywaczewski, Nvidia
  • Slides

Keynote: Why AI Is Not Enough Anymore

  • Speaker: Sebastian Welter, Accenture

Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session 1, Track 1 — Dialogue

Emotions in the Parliament—Lexical Emotion Analysis of Parliamentarian Speech Transcriptions (Scientific Track)

Egon Werlen, Christof Imhof, Per Bergamin

Speaker Recognition

Jan Deriu, Armin Moghaddam, Malgorzata Anna Ulasik, Katsiaryna Mlynchyk, Mark Cieliebak

Blackbox Testing for Conversational Systems

David Klaper

Parallel Session 1, Track 2 — Swiss German Speech

Swiss Voice Project: Swiss German Speech Synthesis

Julian Mäder

How We Crowdsourced a Large Swiss German Speech-to-Text Dataset: “Die Schweizer Dialektsammlung”

Manuela Hürlimann, Michel Plüss, Marc Cuny, Alla Stöckli, Malgorzata Anna Ulasik, Manfred Vogel, Mark Cieliebak

Swiss Parliaments Corpus, an Automatically Aligned Swiss German Speech to Standard German Text Corpus

Michel Plüss, Lukas Neukom, Christian Scheller, Manfred Vogel

Parallel Session 1, Track 3

Automatic Classification of Service Desk Tickets

Michael Zemp, Don Tuggener, Stephen Cryan, Mark Cieliebak

Parallel Session 2, Track 1 — Pre-trained LMs

SST-BERT: Semantic Shift Tracing by Clustering in BERT-based Embedding Spaces

Vani Kanjirangat, Sandra Mitrović, Alessandro Antonucci, Fabio Rinaldi

Re-Evaluating GermEval17 Using German Pre-Trained Language Models

Matthias Assenmacher, Alessandra Corvonato, Christian Heumann

Parallel Session 2, Track 2 — Applications

What’s Hot in the News Today?

Claudia Schulz

Boosting the Quality of Experience of a Leadership Training System with Natural Language Processing

Oscar Lithgow-Serrano, Denis Broggini, Giancarlo Corti, Luca Chiarabini, Daniele Puccinelli, Fabio Rinaldi, Andrea Laus

Parallel Session 2, Track 3

Predicting COVID-19 cases using Reddit posts and other online resources

Felix Drinkall, Janet Pierrehumbert

Parallel Session 3, Track 1

NOVEL2GRAPH: Knowledge Graphs and Dynamic Embeddings for Narrative Text Understanding

Vani Kanjirangat, Alessandro Antonucci, Simone Mellace

COVID-19 Twitter Monitor: Aggregating and Visualizing COVID-19 Related Trends in Social Media

Joseph Cornelius, Tilia Ellendorff, Lenz Furrer, Fabio Rinaldi

 

Parallel Session 3, Track 2

GPT-3 – A Practitioner’s Guide

Pius von Däniken

 

Semi-supervised Machine Learning for Speech Recognition

Lukas Neukom, Christian Scheller

 

Parallel Session 3, Track 3

Spot The Bot: A Robust and Efficient Framework for the Evaluation of Conversational Dialogue Systems

Jan Deriu