Tutorials

• T1: Fake news and fact verification

                     Speakers: Preslav Nakov (QCRI) and Giovanni Da San Martino (University of Padova)
                     Institute / Affiliation: QCRI, Qatar

• T2: AI4Bharat initiative

                     Speakers: Anoop Kunchukuttan, Mitesh Khapra, Pratyush Kumar
                     Institute / Affiliation: Microsoft and IIT Madras

• T3: Safety & Moderation AI in Social Media

                     Speakers: Debdoot Mukherjee & Ramit Sawhney
                     Institute / Affiliation: ShareChat

• T4: Conversational AI     ScheduleNEW

                     Speakers: Praveen Kumar GS, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Raghavendra HR, Ranjan Samal, Bharatram Natarajan, Abhijit Nargund, Mrigank Tiwari, Anish Nediyanchath, Asif Ekbal
                     Institute / Affiliation: SRIB

• T5: Speech to Speech Machine Translation

                     Speakers: Vineet Bhat, Rohit Kundu, Shivam Mhaskar, Akshay Batheja, Shyam Thombre, Sourabh Deoghare, Tamali Banerjee, Jyotsana Khatri, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
                     Institute / Affiliation: IIT Bombay

• T6: Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages

                     Speakers: Surangika Ranathunga, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Rishemjit Kaur, Marjana Prifti Skenduli, Sarubi Thillainathan
                     Institute / Affiliation: University of Moratuwa, University of Toronto, CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, University of New York Tirana

• T7: Lessons, Insights, and Opportunities with the Metrics for Code-Mixing

                     Speakers: Vivek Srivastava
                     Institute / Affiliation: TCS Research, Pune, India

• T8: GraphDL4NLP – Tutorial on Graph Deep Learning for NLP

                     Speakers: Sandya Mannarswamy, Puneesh Khanna, Divyasree Tummalapalli
                     Institute / Affiliation: Intel




Special Sessions




• S1: NLP for Legal Text

              Speakers: Ashutosh Modi, Kripashindhu Ghosh, and couple of law experts
             Institute / Affiliation: IIT Kanpur, IISER Kolkata

• S2: Representation of speech, articulatory dynamics, prosody and language in layers. What do the models know?

             Speakers: Gašper Beguš, Brigitte Bigi, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, Shakuntala Mahanta, Frédéric Mailhot, Moumita Pakrashi, Kristine Yu
             Institute / Affiliation: UC Berkeley, The Laboratoire Parole et Langage, IISc, IIT Guwahati, Dialpad, IIT Guwahati, University of Massachussetts Amherst
             Organizer: Indranil Dutta, School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University






Workshops




• Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities (NLP4DH) @ ICON 2021




Organizers:

Mika Hämäläinen (Rootroo Ltd and University of Helsinki)

Khalid Alnajjar (Rootroo Ltd and University of Helsinki)

Niko Partanen (University of Helsinki)

Jack Rueter (University of Helsinki)

• Workshop on Speech and Music Processing 2021 (SMP2021) @ ICON 2021




Organizers:

Dr. Anupam Biswas (NIT Silchar)

Dr. Rabul H. Laskar (NIT Silchar)

Dr. Pinki Roy (NIT Silchar)

• Workshop on Conversational AI in Indian Languages @ ICON 2021




Organizers:

Sobha Lalitha Devi (AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India)

Pattabhi RK Rao (AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India)

• Workshop on Parsing and its Applications for Indian Languages (PAIL-2021) @ ICON 2021




Organizers:

Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran (Faculty member, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka)

Parameswari Krishnamurthy (Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Hyderabad)

Pruthwik Mishra (PhD scholar at MT & NLP Lab, LTRC in IIIT-Hyderabad)