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