ICON 2020: 17th International Conference



on Natural Language Processing




December 18-21




Organized by



NLP Association, India



AI-NLP-ML Group, Dept. of CSE, IIT Patna


Welcome to ICON 2020!



NEW

Tutorials


  • T1: Unsupervised Machine Translation Demystified

  •                     Organizers: Rudra Murthy, Tamali Banerjee, Jyotsana Khatri, Diptesh Kanojia and Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay)


    Summary: The focus of this tutorial is to cover the breadth of the literature on recent advances in Unsupervised Machine Translation. The tutorial will help the audience in getting started with unsupervised machine translation. The tutorial will span over three sections. In the first section, we will cover the fundamental concepts like cross-lingual embeddings, denoising auto-encoders, language model pre-training, Back Translation (BT), etc which are key to the success of Unsupervised Machine Translation. In the second section, the tutorial will provide a brief summary of recent works on unsupervised machine translation. The tutorial will cover both Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation systems as well as Neural Machine Translation systems. In the last section, we will talk about the limitations of the existing approaches for Unsupervised machine translation approaches and provide general guidelines for successful training of these systems. We also discuss case-studies from Indian languages and provide results obtained with U-MT over Indian language pairs. Finally, we talk about possible research directions.



  • T2: Lies vs Truth and Hate vs Love: Exploring recent trends in fake news and hate speech research

  •                     Organizers: Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakroborty (IIIT Delhi, India)


Summary: The proposed tutorial will cover recent research and future directions in fake news and hate speeches. In particular, following topics will be covered.
1. Fake news and Claims
  a. Claim Detection
  b. Claim Veracity Prediction
  c. Datasets
2. Hate speech normalization
  a. Measuring degree of hate
  b. Identification of hateful phrases
  c. Paraphrasing to reduce hate


Workshops



Due date for workshop paper submission: November 20th, 2020 December 5th, 2020

Paper Acceptance Notification: November 30th, 2020 December 10th, 2020

Camera Ready Submission: December 13th, 2020


Organizers:

Ranjan Kumar Samal (Architect of NLU, Samsung Research Institute-Bangalore)

Praveen Kumar GS (Director of NLU, Samsung Research Institute-Bangalore)

Siddhartha Mukherjee (Engg. Leader of NLU, Samsung Research Institute-Bangalore)


Paper Submission:

Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. The submission site is now available at https://www.softconf.com/icon2020/workshop_papers/


The due date for workshop paper submission is 5 December, 2020 (GMT +0).


For more details, please visit the Workshop Webpage



List of Accepted Workshop Papers


Neighbor Contextual Information Learners for Joint Intent and Slot Prediction

Bharatram Natarajan, Gaurav Mathur and Sameer Jain


Unified Multi Intent Order and Slot Prediction using Selective Learning Propagation

Bharatram Natarajan, Priyank Chhipa, Kritika Yadav and Divya Verma Gogoi


EmpLite: A Lightweight Sequence Labeling Model for Emphasis Selection of Short Texts

Vibhav Agarwal, Sourav Ghosh, Kranti CH, Bharath Challa, Sonal Kumari, Harshavardhana . and BARATH RAJ KANDUR RAJA


Optimized Web-Crawling of Conversational Data from Social Media and Context-Based Filtering

Annapurna P Patil, Rajarajeswari Subramanian, Gaurav Karkal, Keerthana Purushotham, Jugal Wadhwa, K Dhanush Reddy and Meer Sawood


Named Entity Popularity Determination using Ensemble Learning

Vikram Karthikeyan, B Shrikara Varna, Amogha Hegde, Govind Satwani, Shambhavi B R, Jayarekha P and Ranjan Samal


A character representation enhanced on-device Intent Classification

Sudeep Deepak Shivnikar, Himanshu Arora and Harichandana B S S