SIGDIAL/SemDial 2017: Program
SIGDIAL 2017 will be co-located with SemDial 2017, the 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. SIGDIAL and SemDial will run concurrently on August 15-17 and will share three keynote speakers, two joint special sessions, and two joint poster/demo sessions.
The conference will take place in E 1.3 and E 2.2 buildings, Uni Ost - E green sector on the Interactive Campus Map.
| Tuesday 15th August 2017 | ||
| SIGDIAL | SemDial | |
| 08:00 | Registration (E 2.2 foyer, ground floor) | |
| 08:45 | Opening: Welcome and Conferences Overview (E2.2 Günter Hotz Lecture Hall, ground floor) SIGDIAL: Kristiina Jokinen, David DeVault, Annie Louis SemDial: Volha Petukhova, Ye Tian |
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| 09:00 | Keynote Speaker: Oliver Lemon Challenges for Data-driven Dialogue Systems: Finding the Goldilocks Zone for Conversational Data (E2.2 Günter Hotz Lecture Hall, ground floor) Chair: Volha Petukhova |
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| 10:00 | Coffee Break (E 1.3 open area, ground floor) | |
| Oral Session 1 Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems (E1.3 HS 002 room) Chair: Pierre Lison |
Oral Session 1 Semantic/Pragmatic Interpretation (E1.3 HS 001 room) Chair: Simon Dobnik |
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| 10:30 |
Key-Value Retrieval Networks for Task-Oriented Dialogue Mihail Eric and Christopher D. Manning |
Referring Expressions and Communicative Success in Task-oriented Dialogues Laura Aina, Natalia Philippova, Valentin Vogelmann and Raquel Fernández |
| 10:55 |
Generative Encoder-Decoder Models for Task-Oriented Spoken Dialog Systems with Chatting Capability Tiancheng Zhao, Allen Lu, Kyusong Lee and Maxine Eskenazi |
Negotiation of discourse moves: right periphery tags Adriana Osa |
| 11:20 |
Sample-efficient Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Supervised Data for Dialogue Management Pei-Hao Su, Paweł Budzianowski, Stefan Ultes, Milica Gasic and Steve Young |
Meta-conversational since when-questions and the common ground Angelika Kiss |
| 11:45 | Lunch (served, E 1.3 open area, ground floor) | |
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Joint Special Session on Negotiation Dialog (E1.3 H002) Session Chair: Amanda Stent |
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| 13:00 |
Introduction to the Special Session Session Organizers: Amanda Stent, Aasish Pappu, Diane Litman, and Marilyn Walker |
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| 13:05 |
Online learning and transfer for user adaptation in
dialogue systems Carrara Nicolas, Romain Laroche and Olivier Pietquin (SemDial paper) |
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| 13:30 |
Automatic Measures to Characterise Verbal Alignment in
Human-Agent Interaction Guillaume Dubuisson Duplessis, Chloé Clavel and Frédéric Landragin (SIGDIAL paper) |
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| 13:55 |
Summarizing Dialogic Arguments from Social Media Amita Misra, Shereen Oraby, Shubhangi Tandon, Sharath Ts, Pranav Anand and Marilyn Walker (SemDial paper) |
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| 14:20 | Position Paper Short Talks | |
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Heated discussion: A proposal for eliciting negotiation
data with realistic emotional investment Beth Ann Hockey and Christine Doran |
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The Complex Negotiation Dialogue Game Romain Laroche |
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Building an ontology of (dis)agreement space for argument mining Elena Musi, Debanjan Ghosh, Mark Aakhus, Smaranda Muresan, and Nina Wacholder |
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Metalogue Multi-Issue Bargaining Corpus Volha Petukhova, Andrei Malchanau, Youssef Oualil, Dietrich Klakow, Christopher Stevens, Harmen de Weerd, Niels Taatgen |
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| 14:35 |
Discussion & Next Steps Session Organizers: Amanda Stent, Aasish Pappu, Diane Litman, and Marilyn Walker |
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| 15:00 | Coffee Break (E 1.3 open area, ground floor) | |
| 15:30 | Joint Poster Session (E 1.3 open area, ground floor) Chairs: Volha Petukhova, David DeVault |
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| 12 SIGDIAL Posters | 8 SemDial Posters | |
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Beyond On-hold Messages: Conversational Time-buying in Task-oriented Dialogue Soledad López Gambino, Sina Zarrieß and David Schlangen Enabling robust and fluid spoken dialogue with cognitively impaired users Ramin Yaghoubzadeh and Stefan Kopp Exploring Joint Neural Model for Sentence Level Discourse Parsing and Sentiment Analysis Bita Nejat, Giuseppe Carenini and Raymond Ng Finding Structure in Figurative Language: Metaphor Detection with Topic-based Frames Hyeju Jang, Keith Maki, Eduard Hovy and Carolyn Rose Inferring Narrative Causality between Event Pairs in Films Zhichao Hu and Marilyn Walker Interaction Quality Estimation Using Long Short-Term Memories Niklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan Ultes Neural-based Context Representation Learning for Dialog Act Classification Daniel Ortega and Ngoc Thang Vu Predicting Success in Goal-Driven Human-Human Dialogues Michael Noseworthy, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Joelle Pineau Reward-Balancing for Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems using Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning Stefan Ultes, Paweł Budzianowski, Iñigo Casanueva, Nikola Mrkšić, Lina M. Rojas Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gasic and Steve Young Sub-domain Modelling for Dialogue Management with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Paweł Budzianowski, Stefan Ultes, Pei-Hao Su, Nikola Mrkšić, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Iñigo Casanueva, Lina M. Rojas Barahona and Milica Gasic User-initiated Sub-dialogues in State-of-the-art Dialogue Systems Staffan Larsson Utterance Intent Classification of a Spoken Dialogue System with Efficiently Untied Recursive Autoencoders Tsuneo Kato, Atsushi Nagai, Naoki Noda, Ryosuke Sumitomo, Jianming Wu and Seiichi Yamamoto |
A Phonetic Adaptation Module for Spoken Dialogue Systems Eran Raveh and Ingmar Steiner Towards Learning Transferable Conversational Skills using Multi-dimensional Dialogue Modelling Simon Keizer and Verena Rieser Towards a Dialogue System with Long-term, Episodic Memory Daniel Kondratyuk and Casey Kennington Towards End-to-End Modeling of Spoken Language Understanding in a Cloud-based Spoken Dialog System Yao Qian, Rutuja Ubale, Vikram Ramanaryanan, David Suendermann-Oeft, Keelan Evanini, Patrick Lange and Eugene Tsuprun Concern-Alignment for Negotiation and Joint Inquiry in Dialogues Yasuhiro Katagiri, Katsuya Takanashi, Masato Ishizaki, Mika Enomoto and Yasuharu Den Training Argumentation Skills with Argumentative Writing Support Christian Stab and Iryna Gurevych Syntactic Priming by Japanese EFL Learners in Dialogue Contexts based on Different Task Types Miwa Morishita and Yasunari Harada A transferentive connective marker -etaka in Korean: Perspectives of Grammaticalilzation and Pragmatics Sunhee Yae |
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| 17:00 | Sponsor Session (E1.3 HS002) Chair: Ethan Selfridge |
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| 17:45 | Break | |
| 18:15 | Welcome Reception (E2.2 back yard) | |
| Wednesday 16th August 2017 | |||
| SIGDIAL | SemDial | ||
| 09:00 | Keynote Speaker: Elisabeth André Empowering Human-Robot Dialogue by Affective Computing Research (E2.2 Günter Hotz Lecture Hall, ground floor) Chair: David DeVault |
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| 10:00 | Coffee Break (E 1.3 open area, ground floor) | ||
| Oral Session 2 Turn-Taking and Real-Time Interaction (E1.3 HS 002 room) Chair: Kristiina Jokinen |
Oral Session 2 Multimodality (E.3 HS 001 room) Chair: Ichiro Umata |
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| 10:30 |
Towards a General, Continuous Model of Turn-taking in Spoken Dialogue using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks Gabriel Skantze |
Unimodal and Bimodal Backchannels in Conversational English Gaelle Ferre and Suzanne Renaudier |
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| 10:55 |
Attentive listening system with backchanneling, response generation and flexible turn-taking Divesh Lala, Pierrick Milhorat, Koji Inoue, Masanari Ishida, Katsuya Takanashi and Tatsuya Kawahara |
Multimodal Coreference Resolution for Exploratory Data Visualization Dialogue: Context-Based Annotation and Gesture Identification Abhinav Kumar, Jillian Aurisano, Barbara Di Eugenio, Andrew Johnson, Abeer Alsaiari, Nigel Flowers, Alberto Gonzalez and Jason Leigh |
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| 11:20 |
Using Reinforcement Learning to Model Incrementality in a Fast-Paced Dialogue Game Ramesh Manuvinakurike, David DeVault and Kallirroi Georgila |
(Perceptual) grounding as interaction Simon Dobnik and Amelie Åstbom |
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| 11:45 | Lunch (D 4.1 Uni Mensa)* | ||
| Special Session: Natural Language Generation for Dialogue Systems (E1.3 HS 002 room) Chair: Vera Demberg |
Oral Session 3 Computational Dialogue Modelling (E1.3 HS 001 room) Chair: Staffan Larsson |
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| 13:00- 13:10 |
Introduction to the Special Session Session Organizers: Marilyn Walker, Verena Rieser, Vera Demberg, Dietrich Klakow, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, David M. Howcroft, Shereen Oraby |
Challenging Neural Dialogue Models with Natural Data: Memory Networks Fail on Incremental Phenomena Igor Shalyminov, Arash Eshghi and Oliver Lemon |
13:00- 13:25 |
| 13:10- 13:35 |
Redundancy Localization for the Conversationalization of Unstructured Responses Sebastian Krause, Mikhail Kozhevnikov, Eric Malmi and Daniele Pighin |
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Computing negotiation update semantics in multi-issue bargaining dialogues Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt and Andrei Malchanau |
13:25- 13:50 |
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| 13:35- 14:00 |
Neural-based Natural Language Generation in Dialogue using RNN Encoder-Decoder with Semantic Aggregation Van-Khanh Tran and Le-Minh Nguyen |
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Dialogue Act Semantic Representation and Classification Using Recurrent Neural Networks Pinelopi Papalampidi, Elias Iosif and Alexandros Potamianos |
13:50- 14:15 |
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| 14:00- 14:05 |
The E2E Dataset: New Challenges For End-to-End Generation Jekaterina Novikova, Ondřej Dušek and Verena Rieser |
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| 14:05- 14:10 |
A surprisingly effective out-of-the-box char2char model on the E2E NLG Challenge dataset Shubham Agarwal and Marc Dymetman |
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| 14:10- 15:00 |
Panel/Discussion Verena Rieser, Hadar Shemtov, Amanda Stent, Milica Gasic |
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Resuscitation procedures as multi-party dialogue Ernisa Marzuki, Hannah Rohde, Chris Cummins, Gareth Clegg and Holly Branigan |
14:15- 14:40 |
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| 15:00 | Coffee Break (E 1.3 open area, ground floor) | ||
| 15:30- 17:30 |
Joint Poster/Demo Session (E1.3 open area, ground floor - posters; E 1.3 014, 015 and 016 rooms - demos) Poster Chairs: Ye Tian, Annie Louis Demo Chairs: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Volha Petukhova |
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| 10 SIGDIAL Posters | 5 SemDial Posters | ||
| 15:30- 17:30 |
A surprisingly effective out-of-the-box char2char model on the E2E NLG Challenge dataset Shubham Agarwal and Marc Dymetman (Part of NLG special session) Adversarial evaluation for open-domain dialogue generation Elia Bruni and Raquel Fernandez (Part of WOCHAT special session) Are you serious?: Rhetorical Questions and Sarcasm in Social Media Dialog Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Amita Misra, Ellen Riloff and Marilyn Walker Automatic Mapping of French Discourse Connectives to PDTB Discourse Relations Majid Laali and Leila Kosseim Generating and Evaluating Summaries for Partial Email Threads: Conversational Bayesian Surprise and Silver Standards Jordon Johnson, Vaden Masrani, Giuseppe Carenini and Raymond Ng How Would You Say It? Eliciting Lexically Diverse Dialogue for Supervised Semantic Parsing Abhilasha Ravichander, Thomas Manzini, Matthias Grabmair, Graham Neubig, Jonathan Francis and Eric Nyberg MACA: A Modular Architecture for Conversational Agents Hoai Phuoc Truong, Prasanna Parthasarathi and Joelle Pineau Natural Language Input for In-Car Spoken Dialog Systems: How Natural is Natural? Patricia Braunger and Wolfgang Maier Predicting Causes of Reformulation in Intelligent Assistants Shumpei Sano, Nobuhiro Kaji and Manabu Sassano The E2E Dataset: New Challenges For End-to-End Generation Jekaterina Novikova, Ondřej Dušek and Verena Rieser (Part of NLG special session) |
Factor Analysis of Gazing Activities in Native and Second Language Conversations Ichiro Umata, Koki Ijuin and Seiichi Yamamoto Incremental Processing for Neural Conversation Models Pierre Lison and Casey Kennington Incremental Joint Modelling for Dialogue State Tracking Anh Duong Trinh, Robert J. Ross and John D. Kelleher An Open Source Standards-Compliant Voice Browser with Support for Multiple Language Understanding Implementations Dirk Schnelle-Walka, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Stefan Radomski, Patrick Lange and David Suendermann-Oeft Towards a Natural User Interface for Small Groups in Real Museum Environments Marco Valentino, Maria Di Maro and Franco Cutugno |
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| 7 SIGDIAL Demos | 2 SemDial Poster/Demos | ||
| 15:30- 17:30 |
A Multimodal Dialogue System for Medical Decision Support inside Virtual Reality Alexander Prange, Margarita Chikobava, Peter Poller, Michael Barz and Daniel Sonntag Demonstration of interactive teaching for end-to-end dialog control with hybrid code networks Jason D Williams and Lars Liden DialPort, Gone Live: An Update After A Year of Development Kyusong Lee, Tiancheng Zhao, Yulun Du, Edward Cai, Allen Lu, Eli Pincus, David Traum, Stefan Ultes, Lina M. Rojas Barahona, Milica Gasic, Steve Young and Maxine Eskenazi VOILA: An Optimised Dialogue System for Interactively Learning Visually-Grounded Word Meanings (Demonstration System) Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi and Oliver Lemon Lessons in Dialogue System Deployment Anton Leuski and Ron Artstein Information Navigation System with Discovering User Interests Koichiro Yoshino, Yu Suzuki and Satoshi Nakamura SHIHbot: A Facebook chatbot for Sexual Health Information on HIV/AIDS Jacqueline Brixey, Rens Hoegen, Wei Lan, Joshua Rusow, Karan Singla, Xusen Yin, Ron Artstein and Anton Leuski |
An Intelligent Digital Assistant for Clinical Operating Rooms Juliana Miehle, Nadine Gerstenlauer, Daniel Ostler, Hubertus Feußner, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan Ultes Argumentative dialogue system based on argumentation structures Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kazuki Sakai, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Hiromi Narimatsu, Tsunehiro Arimoto, Takaaki Fukutomi, Kiyoaki Matsui, Yusuke Ijima, Hiroaki Ito, Shoko Araki, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Yoshihiro Matsuo |
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| 17:30 | Break | ||
| 17:40 | Bus to Voelklingen (outside E1.3) | ||
| 18:25 | Voelklingen Huette Excursion | ||
| 20:15 | Dinner | ||
| Thursday 17th August 2017 | ||
| SIGDIAL | SemDial | |
| 09:00 | Keynote Speaker: Andrew Kehler Conversational Eliciture in a Bayesian Model of Language Interpretation (E2.2 Günter Hotz Lecture Hall, ground floor) Chair: Annie Louis |
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| 10:00 | Coffee Break (E 1.3 open area, ground floor) | |
| Oral Session 3 Modeling Semantics and Pragmatics (E1.3 HS 002 room) Chair: Manfred Stede |
Oral Session 4 Learning/child-adult interactions (E1.3 HS 001 room) Chair: Barbara Di Eugenio |
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| 10:30 |
Frames: a corpus for adding memory to goal-oriented dialogue systems Layla El Asri, Hannes Schulz, Shikhar Sharma, Jeremie Zumer, Justin Harris, Emery Fine, Rahul Mehrotra and Kaheer Suleman |
Finding the Zone of Proximal Development: Student-Tutor Second Language Dialogue Interactions Arabella Sinclair, Jon Oberlander and Dragan Gasevic |
| 10:55 |
Modelling Protagonist Goals and Desires in First-Person Narrative Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Jiaqi Wu, Ruimin Wang, Pranav Anand and Marilyn Walker |
Dialogue Acts and Updates for Semantic Coordination Staffan Larsson and Jenny Myrendal |
| 11:20 |
The Role of Conversation Context for Sarcasm Detection in Online Interactions Debanjan Ghosh, Alexander Richard Fabbri and Smaranda Muresan |
Designing interactive, automated dialogues for L2 pragmatics learning Veronika Timpe-Laughlin, Keelan Evanini, Ashley Green, Ian Blood, Judit Dombi and Vikram Ramanarayanan |
| 11:45 | Lunch (D4.1 Uni Mensa)* | |
| Second WOCHAT Special Session on Chatbots and
Conversational Agents (WOCHAT-SS) (E1.3 HS 002) Session Chair: Ryuichiro Higashinaka |
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| 13:00 |
Introduction to the Special Session Session Organizers: Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Ron Artstein, Rafael E. Banchs, Wolfgang Minker |
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| 13:10 |
Lexical Acquisition through Implicit Confirmations over Multiple Dialogues Kohei Ono, Ryu Takeda, Eric Nichols, Mikio Nakano and Kazunori Komatani |
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| 13:35 |
Evaluating Natural Language Understanding Services for Conversational Question Answering Systems Daniel Braun, Adrian Hernandez-Mendez, Florian Matthes and Manfred Langen |
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| 14:00 |
A data-driven model of explanations for a chatbot that helps to practice conversation in a foreign language Sviatlana Höhn |
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| 14:25 |
Shared Task Update Report Ryuichiro Higashinaka |
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| 14:40 |
Wrap-up Discussion and Future Plans Session Organizers: Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Ron Artstein, Rafael E. Banchs, Wolfgang Minker |
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| 15:00 | Coffee Break (E 1.3 open area, ground floor) | |
| 15:30 | Oral Session 4 Context in Discourse and Dialogue (E1.3 HS 002 room) Chair: Milica Gasic |
SemDial Business Meeting SemDial Closing (E1.3 HS 001 room) Volha Petukhova, Ye Tian |
| 15:30 |
Towards Full Text Shallow Discourse Relation Annotation: Experiments with Cross-Paragraph Implicit Relations in the PDTB Rashmi Prasad, Katherine Forbes-Riley and Alan Lee |
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| 15:55 |
Sequential Dialogue Context Modeling for Spoken Language Understanding Ankur Bapna, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Larry Heck |
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| 16:20 |
Not All Dialogues are Created Equal: Instance Weighting for Neural Conversational Models Pierre Lison and Serge Bibauw |
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| 16:50 | Break | |
| 17:00 | SIGDIAL Business Meeting (E1.3 HS 002 room) Chairs: Jason Williams, Ethan Selfridge |
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| 17:40 | SIGDIAL Best Paper Awards David DeVault, Annie Louis SIGDIAL Closing Kristiina Jokinen, Manfred Stede (E1.3 HS 002 room) |
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| 18:10 | End of Conference | |
*Lunch vouchers for Uni Mensa are included in the participant's registration package
Last update: July 25, 2017 - Credits