Tirthankar Dasgupta is a research scientist at Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., India in the Text Analytics and Web Intelligence group. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. His research interests span natural language processing, computational psycholinguistics, machine learning and human computer interaction. He has organized a number of workshops in the area of assistive technology and natural language processing. He is also an active organizing member and regional coordinator of Panini Linguistic Olympiad in India. He was an organizing member of International Linguistic Olympiad 2016 in India.

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Manjira Sinha is associate principal artificial intelligence at Accenture AI Labs. Prior to that she was a research scientist in the Text and Graph Analytics research group at Conduent Labs India (formerly known as Xerox Research Centre India) for 3 years. She is currently working in NLP for Healthcare. She has also worked on cross-domain Text categorization, Social Media analysis for Urban Informatics, Knowledge Extraction, and Quality Analysis for Call center Interactions. Manjira has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. She is also visiting faculty in Indian Institute of Information Technology Kalyani. Her areas of interest include Language Comprehension and Psycholinguistics, Natural Language Processing, Assistive Technology and Human Computer Interaction.

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Plaban Kumar Bhowmick is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Educational Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He works in the area of Education Technology, E-learning, Natural Language Processing, AI for Education, and Semantic Web. The focus of his research is to employ core artificial intelligence, cognitive science, language processing and semantic web techniques in solving real world e-learning problems. Present research problems that are being addressed are: Automated answer grading, Augmenting Learner Experience, Learning Analytics, and Automated Question Retrieval. He presented a number of tutorials and workshops on learning analytics, AI for Education, and Semantic Web. Dr. Bhowmick received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

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