ICON 2026
International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2026)
Department of Information Technology, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India
20 -23 December 2026
Accepted Workshops, Tutorials, and Shared Tasks
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Workshops
Workshops
Beyond Static Facts: Event-Centric Knowledge Graphs for Explainable AI
Pattabhi R K Rao, AU-KBC
Vijay Sundar Ram R, AU-KBC
Sobha Lalitha Devi, AU-KBC
2. BHASHA: Benchmarks, Harmonization, Annotation, and Standardization for Human-Centric AI in Indian Languages
Arnab Bhattacharya, IIT Kanpur
Kripabandhu Ghosh, IISER Kolkata
Saptarshi Ghosh, IIT Kharagpur
Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur
Hrishikesh Terdalkar, IIIT Hyderabad
Pramit Bhattacharyya, IIT Kanpur
Shubham Kumar Nigam, University of Birmingham, Dubai
Karthika N J, IIT Bombay
Manoj Balaji Jagadeeshan, IIT Kharagpur
3. Second Workshop on QuantumNLP: Integrating Quantum Computing with Natural Language Processing
Shyambabu Pandey, SRM University
Santanu Pal, TUM
Priyanka Jain CDAC, New Delhi
Riyanka Manna, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Asif Ekbal, IIT Patna
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University
Dipankar Das, Jadavpur University
Partha Pakray, NIT Silchar
4. 1st Workshop on Speech Emotion Analysis in the era of LLMs (SEAL)
Dipankar Das, Jadavpur University
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University
Gareth Jones, DCU
Tutorials
Tutorials
1. Model Compression for Language Models — Model Pruning, Knowledge Distillation, and KV Cache Compression
Tanmoy Chakraborty, IIT Delhi
Ayan Sengupta, IIT Delhi
Palaash Goel, IIT Delhi
2. SAMANVAYA: Building Grammar-Aware Resources and Annotation Standards for Indian Languages
Arnab Bhattacharya,, IIT Kanpur
Hrishikesh Terdalkar, IIIT Hyderabad
Chaitali Dangarikar, IIT Kanpur
Pramit Bhattacharyya, IIT Kanpur
Karthika N J, IIT Bombay
Shared Tasks
Shared Tasks
1. LingualSafety 1.0: Building Jailbreak Defences Against Multilingual Jailbreak Attacks.
Dr. Mamta (Postdoctoral Researcher, King's College London)
Dr. Deeksha Varshney (Assistant Professor, IIT Jodhpur)
Dr. Asif Ekbal (Associate Professor, IIT Patna)
2. Explainable Faux Hate Detection and Multi-Dimensional Reasoning (HateMirage)
Kasu Sai Kartheek Reddy, Shankar Biradar, Sunil Saumya, Md. Shad Akhtar, Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad, Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE Manipal, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India
3. COILD-INDIC-MT: A Shared Task on Direct Indic-to-Indic Machine Translation
Kshetrimayum Boynao Singh, Deepak Kumar, Avinash Kumar, Nitin Kumar Mishra, Palash Pratim Dutta, Ashwini Vaidya, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Samit Bhattacharya, Shad Akhtar, Poonam Bansal Muralikrishna SN, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Asif Ekbal, IIT Patna, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIIT Delhi, IGDTUW, Delhi, MIT, Manipal
4. HASTIKA: Hate Speech and Target Category Identification in Kannada-English Code-Mixed Text
Shankar Biradar, Sanjana Kavatagi, Rashmi Rachh, Rashmi Laxmikant Malghan, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, and Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, India
Department of Information Technology, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India
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