The seventeenth International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2020) was held at IIT Patna, India during December 18-21, 2020. The ICON Conference series is a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational linguistics (CL) in India and abroad. The main conference was on December 19-20, 2020. This was preceded by one day of pre-conference tutorials on December 18, 2020 and one day of post conference workshops on December 21, 2020.
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Papers were invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of Natural Language Processing, with a particular focus on South Asian languages and other less resourced languages, issues, and applications relevant to South Asia. However, other languages of the world are not excluded. The areas of interest include, but were not limited to:Keynote Speaker | Title of the talk |
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Prof. Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany |
Let’s Argue – Understanding and Generating Natural Language Arguments |
From Simple to Complex QA |
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Translingual Learning of 1000+ Languages |
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Dr. Soujanya Poria, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore |
Toward Investigating and Interpreting the Role of Context in Utterance-level Dialogue Understanding |
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Rudra Murthy, Tamali Banerjee, Jyotsana Khatri, Diptesh Kanojia and Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay) |
Unsupervised Machine Translation Demystified |
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Lies vs Truth and Hate vs Love: Exploring recent trends in fake news and hate speech research |
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Vishal Goyal (Punjabi University Patiala) and |
Demonstration of Tools and Resources |
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Ranjan Kumar Samal, Praveen Kumar GS, Siddhartha Mukherjee (Samsung Research Institute - Bangalore) |
International Workshop On Joint NLP Modelling for Conversational AI @ ICON 2020 |
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Dipti Misra Sharma (IIIT-Hyderabad), Asif Ekbal (IIT-Patna), Karunesh Arora (C-DAC, Noida), Sudip Kumar Naskar (Jadavpur University), Dipankar Ganguly (C-DAC, Noida), Sobha L (AUKBC-Chennai), Radhika Mamidi (IIIT-Hyderabad), Sunita Arora (C-DAC, Noida), Pruthwik Mishra (IIIT-Hyderabad), Vandan Mujadia (IIIT-Hyderabad) |
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