The Opening Day for WS07 will take place on July 16, 2007 in Shaffer Hall Room 3 on the Homewood Campus of The Johns Hopkins University. If you need directions to campus, you can find them here. Shaffer Hall is located on the Engineering Quad. Due to detours around the Decker Quad construction, it takes about 10 minutes to walk from the Stony Run visitor parking lot (Number 60 on the campus map) to Shaffer Hall (Number 26).

• 08:30 AM - Continental Breakfast
• 09:00 AM - Welcome, Frederick Jelinek, CLSP/JHU, Chair WS'07 (Slides)
• 09:10 AM - Remarks from Nick Jones, Dean, Whiting School of Engineering
• 09:15 AM - Remarks from Workshop Sponsors
• 09:25 AM - Preworkshop Activities, Sanjeev Khudanpur (JHU) (Slides)

• 09:40 AM - Exploiting Lexical & Encyclopedic Resources for Entity Disambiguation (Slides)
• 10:10 AM - Discussion and Questions
• 10:20 AM - Recovering from Model Inconsistency in Multilingual Speech Recognition (Slides)
• 10:50 AM - Discussion and Questions
• 11:00 AM - Break, Adjourn and proceed to Shaffer 100 for an Introduction to the WS07 Laboratory

• 11:15 AM - Administrative Information and WS07 Staff Introductions, Monique Folk (CLSP/JHU)
• 11:30 AM - Computing Infrastructure and System Staff Introduction, Justin Martin and Brian O'Reilly (CLSP/JHU)
• 12:00 PM - Lunch (on your own)
• 01:30 PM - Team Meetings:
• Barton 114: Recovering from Model Inconsistency in Multilingual Speech Recognition
• Shaffer 100: Exploiting Lexical & Encyclopedic Resources for Entity Disambiguation