Title: “Computational Paninian Framework and Parsing Indian Languages”

Biography: Dipti Misra Sharma is a professor at MT & NLP Lab, LTRC, IIIT Hyderabad. She has been a pioneer of treebanking and parsing in Indian languages. She has been leading many consortia projects like Treebanking in Indian Languages project funded by MeiTY, Govt of India; Development of Hindi and Urdu Treebanks, Urdu Propbanking funded by NSF, USA; IL-ILMT Project funded by MeiTY; SWAYAM - The National Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) funded by Ministry of Education, Govt of India; Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation pilot funded by MeiTY, Govt of India. She has authored more than 100 publications in reputed journals, conferences and book chapters and guided more than 25 PhD and MS by Research students. She is currently the Associate Editor for TALIP: ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP). She is also the area chair of the "Syntax and Semantics" track in ICON-2021.

Title: “Universal Dependencies: the good, the bad and the potential”

Biography: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at The Ohio State University. She received her PhD from Stanford University in December 2012 under the supervision of Christopher D. Manning. She is developing computational linguistic methods that capture what is conveyed by speakers beyond the literal meaning of the words they say. Primarily she wants to ground meanings in corpus data, and show how such meanings can drive pragmatic inference. She has also contributed to defining the Stanford Dependencies and the Universal Dependencies representations.