ICON 2019


16th International Conference on Natural Language Processing

LTRC, IIIT Hyderabad

Past ICON Keynotes


Keynote Speaker Keynote Topic
Prof Pushpak Bhattacharyya "saathi haath baDaanaa": Cooperative Natural Language Processing
Mr. Sanjeev Gupta NLP and impact on ecommerce: The Flipkart Way
Prof Björn W. Schuller NLP in Tomorrow’s Profiling - Words May Fail You
Prof Hwee Tou NG Grammatical Error Correction: Past, Present, and Future
Prof Vasudeva Varma Towards Abstractive Summarization
Prof Richard Sproat Neural (and other machine learning) approaches to text normalization
Dr. Bruno Pouliquen Practical use of machine translation in international organizations
Prof Yuji Matsumoto Scientific Paper Analysis
Prof Aravind K Joshi Complexity of Dependency Representations for Natural Languages
Prof Sobha L Text Analysis for identifying Entities and their mentions in Indian languages
Prof Lori Levin Modeling Non‐Propositional Semantics
Prof Sadao Kurohashi Knowledge-Intensive Structural NLP in the Era of Big Data
Prof Vasudeva Varma Challenges in Social Media Analysis: Text Analysis and Beyond
Prof Pushpak Bhattacharyya NLP and IR: Coming Closer or Moving Apart?
Prof Miriam ButtLexical Resources for South Asian Languages
Prof Owen RambowTreebanks are Not Naturally Occurring Data: Choices in Treebank Design and What They Mean for Natural Language Processing
Akshar Bharati, Prof Vineet Chaitanya, Prof Amba Kulkarni Anusaaraka: An approach to Machine Translation
Prof Sanjeev Khudanpur On Estimating Probability Mass Functions from Small Samples
Prof Hwee Tou NG Towards Word Sense Disambiguation in the Large
Prof Ted Pedersen The Semantic Quilt: Contexts, Co-occurrences, Kernels, and Ontologies
Prof Steven Bird Querying Linguistic Databases
Dr. Lucy Vanderwende and Arul Menezes The Empirical Revolution in Natural Language Processing
Prof S. Umesh Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition
Prof Martin Kay Aligning Sentence Parts
Prof Ramon Lopez de Mantaras Towards Artificial Creativity â Performing expressive music using case-based reasoning
Prof Jun-ichi Tsujii Text Mining for Biology â Experience and Research Activities of the GENIA group
Prof Manuela M Veloso Cooperation and Learning in Teams of Autonomous Robots
Prof Aravind K Joshi From Sentence to âImmediate Discourseâ: Annotation of Corpus for Discourse Connectives and to their arguments, together with their Semantics
Dr. Keh-Yih Su A Customizable, Self-Learnable Parameterized Machine Translation System Achieved via Two-Way Training