General Chair: Prof. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, President, NLPAI 

Programme Chairs: 

1. Prof. Shikhar Kumar Sarma, Dean, Faculty of Technology and Head, Department of Information Technology, Gauhati University

2. Dr. Sobha Lalitha Devi, AU-KBC, Anna University 

Sponsorship Chair:  

• Chair: Prof. Manish Srivastava, IIITH

• Co-Chair: Rajeev R R, ICFOSS, Thiruvananthapuram

Area Chairs:

1. Area Chair: Language Resources and Evaluation

   1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • • Chair: Narayan Choudhury, CIIL Mysore 

                       • Co-Chair: Ashwini Vaidya, IIT Delhi

2. Area Chair: Syntax and Semantics

   1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • • Chair: Dipti Mishra Sharma, IIIT Hyderabad 

                       • Co-Chair: Jyoti Pawar, Goa University

3. Area Chair: Morphology and Word Segmentation 

   1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • • Chair: Vijay Sundar Ram, AU-KBC

                       • Co-Chair: Ashwath Rao, MIT Manipal

4. Area Chair:  Discourse, Pragmatics and Reasoning

   1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • • Chair:  Sobha Lalitha Devi, AU-KBC Research Centre

                       • Co-Chair: Sheeja Sudhir, Hindustan University

                       • Co-Chair: Pattabhi RK Rao, AU-KBC 

5. Area Chair: Machine Translation

   1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • • Chair: Karunesh Arora, CDAC 

                       • Co-Chair: Anoop Kunchukuttan, Microsoft 

6. Area Chair: Summarization 

   1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • • Chair: Nomi Baruah,  Dibrugarh University

7. Area Chair: Question Answering, Information Extraction

   1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • • Chair: Asif Ekbal, IIT Patna 

                       • Co-Chair: Subhashish Sengupta, Accenture 

8. Area Chair: Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition

   1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • • Chair: Dipankar Das, Jadavpur University 

                       • Co-Chair: Shad Akhtar, IIIT Delhi 

9. Area Chair: Natural Language Text Generation

   1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • • Chair: Vasudev Verma, IIIT Hyderabad

                       • Co-Chair: Vishal Goyal, Punjabi University 

10. Area Chair: Natural Language Understanding 

    1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • • Chair: Kishorjit Nongmeikapam, IIIT Manipur

11. Area Chair: Information Retrieval and Text Mining

    1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • • Chair: Ranbir Singh, IIT Guwahati 

                        • Co-Chair: Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur 

12. Area Chair: Multimodality

    1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • • Chair: C V Jawahar, IIIT Hyderabad 

                        • Co-Chair: Asutosh Modi, IIT Kanpur 

13. Area Chair: NLP for Digital Humanities

    1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. •  Chair: Priyankoo Sarmah, IIT, Guwahati

14. Area Chair: Speech

    1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • Chair: Srinivas Bangalore, Interactions LLC, USA 

                      • Co-Chair: Chiranjeevi Yarra, IIIT Hyderabad  

15. Area Chair: Machine Learning in NLP

    1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • Chair: Sudeshna Sarkar, IIT Kharagpur 

                      • Co-Chair: Anil Kumar Singh, IIT BHU 

16. Area Chair: NLP Applications

    1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • Chair: Monojit Choudhury,  MBZUAI 

                      • Co-Chair: Thoudam Doren Singh, NIT Meghalaya 

17. Area Chair: Computational Psycholinguistics

    1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • Chair: Kamal Kumar Choudhary, IIT Ropar 

18. Area Chair: Multilinguality and Language Diversity

    1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • Chair: Soma Paul, IIIT Hyderabad

                      • Co-Chair: Parameswari K., IIIT Hyderabad

19. Doctoral Consortium Chair

    1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • Chair: Radhika Mamidi, IIIT Hyderabad 

                      • Co-Chair: Mauzama Firdaus, IIT-ISM 

20. Workshop/Tutorial Chair

    1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • Chair: Sudip Kumar Naskar, Jadavpur University 

                      • Co-Chair: Amitava Das, BITS GOA 

21. Shared Task/Tool Contest Chair

    1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • Chair: Partha Pakray, NIT Silchar 

                      • Co-Chair: Soumitra Ghosh, IIT BHU

Department of Information Technology, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India