09.00-09.15	Welcome and announcements
09.15-10.15	Keynote Address Marius Pasca (Google Inc.)
10.15-10.30	Discussion
10.30-11.00	Coffee break
	Analysis of Multilingual QA technology
11.00-11.30	QA better than IR? Dominique Laurent
11.30-12.00	The Effect of Machine Translation on the Performance of Arabic-English QA System Azzah Al-Maskari
12.00-12.30	Cross-Cutting Aspects of Cross-Language Question Answering Systems Bogdan Sacaleanu
12.30-14.30	Lunch break
	Multilingual and Translingual QA systems
14.30-15.00	Evaluation and Improvement of Cross-Lingual Question Answering Strategies Anne-Laure Ligozat
15.00-15.30	Keyword Translation Accuracy and Cross-Lingual Question Answering in Chinese and Japanese Mengqiu Wang
15.30-16.00	BRUJA: Question Classification for Spanish. Using Machine Translation and an English Classifier Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras
16.00-16.30	Coffee break
	Web and Geographical QA systems
16.30-17.00	Monolingual Web-based Factoid Question Answering in Chinese, Swedish, English and Japanese Ed Whittaker
17.00-17.30	Adapting a Semantic Question Answering System to the Web Sven Hartrumpf
17.30-18.00	Experiments Adapting an Open-Domain Question Answering System to the Geographical Domain Using Scope-Based Resources Daniel Ferrés
18.00-18.10	Concluding Remarks