About
Barriers separate the people of the world and hinder mutual understanding, love and compassion: Barriers imposed by physical separation, language barriers, cultural differences, insufficient access to health care and education, and more. The “International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (InterACT) ” celebrates 25 years of work on key technologies that contribute to breaking down barriers between people.
InterACT was formed with the vision of contributing to solutions to these problems. InterACT is a network of top institutions worldwide. It was founded by Carnegie Mellon University (USA) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), and has since expanded to include 8 of world leading research institutions. Their mission and passion: to develop advanced communication, robotics, artificial intelligence and other technologies to contribute to these difficult societal problems.
The symposium features technology demonstrations, lectures, keynotes, panel discussion, with contributors, alumni, visionaries and luminaries, who have collaborated with us over the years from industry, governments and academia. Come join us to network, develop new insights, and brainstorm the future.
Videos
Opening And Welcoming Remarks

Opening And Welcoming Remarks
Jul 31, 2016
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1530 views
Keynote Talk

25 Years of interACT: A Success Story for International and Crossdisciplinary Co...
Jul 31, 2016
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1055 views
Scientific Talks: Language/Translation Technology

Massively Multilingual Language Technologies
Jul 31, 2016
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1152 views

Technologies for better Understanding
Jul 31, 2016
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1142 views

Machine Translation - Winds of Change
Jul 31, 2016
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1204 views
Scientific Talks: Interpretation

Interpreters at Work – a Peek into a Day (or two) at the European Parliament
Jul 31, 2016
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1266 views

Breaking the Language Barrier
Jul 31, 2016
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1182 views

Bridging different Languages, Countries, and Cultures by Speech to Speech Transl...
Jul 31, 2016
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1005 views

The Past, the Present, the Future of Spoken Language Translation Evaluation
Jul 31, 2016
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1013 views

Introduction to "Interpretation"
Jul 31, 2016
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1084 views

Speech Translation in human-to-human Interaction: Skype Translator
Jul 31, 2016
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1168 views
Panel: Overcoming The Language Barrier: Multilingualism and Interpretation

Overcoming The Language Barrier: Multilingualism and Interpretation
Jul 31, 2016
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1189 views
Scientific Talks: Neural Networks

Connectionist Temporal Classification for End-to-End Speech Recognition
Jul 31, 2016
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1993 views

Neurons and Robots
Jul 31, 2016
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1013 views
Scientific Talks: Speech Processing

On Architectural Issues of Neural Networks in Speech Recognition
Jul 31, 2016
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1518 views

Intentionality in Speech: Implications for Computational Models
Jul 31, 2016
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1068 views
Scientific Talks: Healthcare and Humanitarian Missions

Cognition-Guided Surgery - A New Paradigm
Jul 31, 2016
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1108 views

Digital Democracy
Jul 31, 2016
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838 views
Panel: Healthcare and Humanitarian Missions

Healthcare and Humanitarian Missions
Jul 31, 2016
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1113 views
Scientific Talks: Multimodal Interfaces

Social Robotics - From Cognitive Science to Robots in the Real World
Jul 31, 2016
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1264 views

Situated Multi-Modal Interaction
Jul 31, 2016
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997 views

Computer Vision for the Blind
Jul 31, 2016
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1065 views
Scientific Talks: Dialog Processing

Introduction to Dialog Processing
Jul 31, 2016
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1031 views

Deep Learning for Domain Scaling of Conversational Agents
Jul 31, 2016
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1263 views

Enjoyable Conversation System
Jul 31, 2016
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1105 views

On-line Learning of Wide-domain Spoken Dialogue Systems
Jul 31, 2016
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1147 views
Panel: Chatbots: Intelligent Interaction with Machines

Chatbots: Intelligent Interaction with Machines
Jul 31, 2016
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1791 views
Scientific Talks: Robotics

Probabilistic Techniques for Robot Navigation
Jul 31, 2016
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1279 views
Panel: Human and Artificial Intelligence

Human and Artificial Intelligence
Jul 31, 2016
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1483 views
Panel: interACT: Internationalization in Education and Research

interACT: Internationalization in Education and Research
Jul 31, 2016
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1249 views