The Opening Day for WS03 will take place on July 14, 2003 in the SDS room in the Ross Jones Building of the Mattin Center, on the Homewood Campus of The Johns Hopkins University. If you need directions to campus, you can find them here. The Mattin Center is located along Charles Street, east of the visitor parking lot and Barton Hall.

• 08:30 AM - Continental Breakfast
• 09:00 AM - Welcome, Frederick Jelinek, CLSP/JHU, Chair WS'03
• 09:10 AM - Remarks from Marc Donohue, Associate Dean for Research, JHU WSE
• 09:15 AM - Remarks from Workshop Sponsors
• 09:25 AM - Preworkshop Activities, Sanjeev Khudanpur (JHU)

• 09:45 AM - Syntax for Statistical Machine Translation
• 10:05 AM - Discussion and Questions
• 10:15 AM - Semantic Analysis Over Sparse Data
• 10:35 AM - Discussion and Questions
• 10:45 AM - Confidence Estimation for Natural Language Applications
• 11:05 AM - Discussion and Questions
• 11:15 AM - Break

• 11:30 AM - Administrative Information and WS03 Staff Introductions, Laura Graham (CLSP/JHU)
• 11:45 AM - Computing Infrastructure and System Staff Introduction, Bill Byrne (CLSP/JHU)
• 12:00 NOON - Adjourn, Proceed to Shaffer 100 for an Introduction to the WS03 Laboratory
• 12:10 PM - Lunch (on your own)
• 01:30 PM - Team Meetings:
• Barton 117: Syntax for Statistical Machine Translation<
• Shaffer 100: Semantic Analysis Over Sparse Data
• Barton 114: Confidence Estimation for Natural Language Applications