09:30-10:15 | Keynote talk: Kai Yu | Structured deep learning for context awareness in speech and language processing (slides) |
10:15-11:00 | Keynote talk: Ian Goodfellow | Generative adversarial networks (slides) |
11:00-11:20 | Break |
11:20-11:40 | Spotlight invited talk: Ryan Lowe | Modern challenges in learning end-to-end dialogue systems (slides) |
11:40-12:00 | Spotlight invited talk: William Chan | Listen, attend and spell: A neural network for large vocabulary conversational speech recognition (slides) |
12:00-12:20 | Spotlight invited talk: Herman Kamper | Unsupervised speech recognition using acoustic word embeddings (slides) |
12:20-12:40 | Spotlight invited talk: Lisa Anne Hendricks | Deep compositional captioning: Describing novel object categories without paired training data (slides) |
12:40-14:00 | Lunch break |
14:00-14:45 | Keynote talk: Fei Sha | Being shallow and random is (almost) as good as being deep and thoughtful (slides) |
14:45-15:30 | Keynote talk: Jan Chorowski | End-to-end approaches to speech recognition and language processing (slides) |
15:30-17:00 | Break + poster session |
| Yossi Adi, Einat Kermany, Yonatan Belinkov, Ofer Lavi and Yoav Goldberg | Fine-Grained Analysis of Sentence Embeddings Using Auxiliary Prediction Tasks |
| Herman Kamper, Sharon Goldwater, and Aren Jansen | A Segmental Framework for Fully-Unsupervised Large-Vocabulary Speech Recognition |
| Ryan Lowe, Iulian Serban, Mike Noseworthy, Chia-Wei Liu, Laurent Charlin, and Joelle Pineau | Automatically Evaluating Dialogue Responses |
| Muhammad Rizwan and David V. Anderson | Comparison of Distance Metrics for Phoneme Classification based on Deep Neural Network Features and Weighted k-NN Classifier |
| Parakrant Sarkar, Krothapalli Sreenivasa Rao, and Gurunath Reddy M | Development of Story Text-to-Speech System based on Story Genres |
| Sunil Thulasidasan and Jeffrey Bilmes | Semi-Supervised Phone Classification using Deep Neural Networks and Stochastic Graph-Based Entropic Regularization |
| Shubham Toshniwal and Karen Livescu | Read, Attend and Pronounce: An Attention-Based Approach for Grapheme-To-Phoneme Conversion |