COMMITTEE
PATRON
Dr. R. Velraj
Vice Chancellor, Anna University
ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHAIR
Rajeev Sangal
IIIT Hyderabad
GENERAL CHAIRS
Dipti Misra Sharma
IIIT Hyderabad
Shivaji Bandyopadhyay
Jadavpur University
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Sobha L
AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai
Karunesh Arora
CDAC, Noida
AREA CHAIRS
SYNTAX & SEMANTICS
Chair - Dipti Misra Sharma
IIIT Hyderabad
Co-Chair - Pawan Goyal
IIT Kharagpur
QA, INFORMATION EXTRACTION
Chair - Asif Ekbal
IIT Patna
Co-Chair - Manish Srivastava
IIIT Hyderabad
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND TEXT MINING
Chair - Prasenjit Majumder
DAIICT, Gandhinagar
Co-Chair - Pattabhi RK Rao
AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai
SENTIMENT ANALYSIS AND EMOTION RECOGNITION
Chair - Dipankar Das
Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Co-Chair - Vishal Goyal
Punjabi University, Patiala
LANGUAGE RESOURCE AND EVALUATION
Chair - Girish Nath Jha
JNU, Delhi
Co-Chair -Niladri Shekhar Dash
ISI Kolkata
SPEECH
Chair - Srinivas Banglore
Interactions LLC, USA
Co-Chair -Kalika Bali
Microsoft Research India, Bengaluru
DISCOURSE
Chair - Pushpak Bhatacharyya
IIT Bombay
Co-Chair - Sobha L
AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai
MULTIMODALITY
Chair - CV Jawahar
IIIT Hyderabad
Co-Chair - Ashutosh Modi
IIT Kanpur
MACHINE TRANSLATION
Chair - Karunesh Arora
CDAC Noida
NLP APPLICATIONS
Chair - Monojit Choudhury
AI Centre, Abu Dhabi
Co-Chair - Rajeev R R
ICFOSS, Thiruvananthapuram
MACHINE LEARNING IN NLP
Chair - Sudeshna Sarkar
IIT Kharagpur
Co-Chair - Tanmoy Chakraborty
IIT Delhi
NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXT GENERATION
Chair - Vasudeva Varma
IIIT Hyderabad
Co-Chair - Sriparna Saha
IIT Patna
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS
Chair - Radhika Mamidi
IIIT Hyderabad
Co-Chair - Jyoti Pawar
Goa University
SHARED TASK/TOOL CONTEST
Chair - Partha Pakray
NIT Silchar
Co-Chair - Vijay Sundar Ram
AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai
WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL
Chair - SUDIP KUMAR NASKAR
Jadavpur University, Kolkata