Final Workshop of the

Italian-Israeli Project on IT for Cultural Heritage

June 29 and 30, 2011

Sala Stringa, FBK-irst, Povo

Day 1 - Wednesday, June 29

9:00              Greetings

Oliviero Stock  and Martin Golumbic: Introduction and project results summary

Session 1 Mostly Museum Mobile Guide

9:45              Tsvi Kuflik: “From a research prototype to a living lab”

10:30           Alan Wecker:  “Projecting into the future; A preliminary study of the use of projectors by groups in the indoor cultural heritage setting”

10:50           coffee break

11:10           Nadav Kashtan: “Content Preparation for the Intelligent Mobile Guide at the Hecht Museum”

11:30           Eyal Dim, Tsvi Kuflik: “Social Signal Processing In Cultural Heritage Environment”

12:00           Charles Callaway: “Mobile Drama in an Instrumented Museum: Inducing Group Conversation via Coordinated Narratives”

12:30           Bruno Dalvit: “WSN infrastructure for museal tracking: Hecht Museum Positioning System (HMPS)”

13                 Lunch

Session 2 Other contributions to Museum

14:15           Michele Lanzingher: “The new MUSE and its technological opportunities”

14:30           Amy Murphy :“The Software Side of WSNs: research directions in Trento”

14:45           Discussion

15:15           coffee break

15:35           Imrich Chlamtac “ The European Alliance for Innovation”

15:50           Massimo Zancanaro  “Museum coffee table presentation  and demo”

16:50           End of Day 1

17:30           Nadav Kashtan’s Conference (in town).

Day 2 - Thursday, June 30

Session 3 Mostly Language

9:00              Ido Dagan, Jonatan Berant: “Recent models in textual entailment inference and an application to cultural heritage”

10:00           Claudio Giuliano, Kateryna Timoschenko: “Enriching text with background knowledge: a cultural heritage case study”

10:15           Marco Guerini: “Valenced messages in the museum and beyond”

10:30           Language demos  and coffee break

11:00           Vincenzo Maltese: “Semantic matching: algorithms and implementations”

11:15           Bernardo Magnini: “Integrating Textual and Ontological Knowledge: the case of the Trentino Knowledge Store”

11:30           Marcello  Federico: “Outlook on ASR and MT at FBK”

11:45           Marco Baroni: “Distributional Semantics at CLIC”

12:00           Discussion

12:20           Larry Manevitz:“Future Directions:  Some recent directions arising from Neurocomputation and Neuroscience and how that could benefit Human Computer Interactions  and FBK?”

12:50           Diego Sona:“"Computational Analysis of Neuroimaging Data"

13:05           Lunch

Session 4  Technology for peace, and graph algorithms

14: 00          Tamar Weiss:

14:45           Adolfo Villafiorita: “Maputo Living Lab: challenges and opportunities”

15:00           coffee break

15:20           Marty Golumbic :“Graph Sandwich Problem”

16:05           Roberto Battiti: “Graphs and Network Analytics”

16:20           Alessandro Cimatti, Stefano Tonetta: “Formal Requirements Validation”

16:35           Discussion and conclusions

17:00           end of Day 2