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The seventeenth International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2020), IIT Patna, India, December 18-21, 2020.

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About ICON 2020

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.

Topics

Papers were invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of Natural Language Processing, with a particular focus on South Asian languages and other less resourced languages, issues, and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:

ICON 2020 Digital Repository

Keynotes

Keynote Speaker	Title of the talk
Prof. Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany	Let’s Argue – Understanding and Generating Natural Language Arguments Click here for the Recorded Session
Prof. Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University	From Simple to Complex QA Click here for the Recorded Session
Prof. David Yarowsky, John Hopkins University, USA	Translingual Learning of 1000+ Languages Click here for the Recorded Session

Invited Talk

Invited Speaker	Title of the talk
Dr. Soujanya Poria, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore	Toward Investigating and Interpreting the Role of Context in Utterance-level Dialogue Understanding Click here for the Recorded Session

Tutorials

Tutorial by	Tutorial on
Rudra Murthy, Tamali Banerjee, Jyotsana Khatri, Diptesh Kanojia and Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay)	Unsupervised Machine Translation Demystified Click here for the Recorded Session Click here for the Presentation
Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakroborty (IIIT Delhi)	Lies vs Truth and Hate vs Love: Exploring recent trends in fake news and hate speech research Click here for the Recorded Sessions: Session 1: Fake News Session 2: Hate Speech

Demonstration

Organizers	Demonstration name
Vishal Goyal (Punjabi University Patiala) and Asif Ekbal (IIT Patna)	Demonstration of Tools and Resources Click here for the Recorded Session

Workshop

Organizers	Workshop name
Ranjan Kumar Samal, Praveen Kumar GS, Siddhartha Mukherjee (Samsung Research Institute - Bangalore)	International Workshop On Joint NLP Modelling for Conversational AI @ ICON 2020 Click here for the Recorded Session

Shared Tasks

Organizers	Shared Task name
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)	ST 1: Adap-MT 2020: Low Resource Domain Adaptation for Indic Machine Translation ST 2: TermTraction 2020: Unsupervised Technical Domain Terms Extraction ST 3: TechDOfication 2020: Technical DOmain Identification Click here for the Recorded Session