Organizing Committee

Tirthankar Ghosal

Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Tirthankar Ghosal is a researcher with Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Prague. His research interests are Cognitive NLP, NLP for Scholarly Communications and Peer Review, Argumentation Mining, and Text/Dialogue Summarization. He is looking after the Automatic Minuting module of ELITR and also the principal organizer of the SummDial special session at SIGDial 2021 on meeting and dialogue summarization. He is currently the co-editor of the SIGIR Forum and Communications Officer at the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Special Interest Group for the Measurement of Information Production and Use (SIG-MET). Tirthankar has served/serving in organization committees of several international conferences and workshops including ArgKG @ AKBC 2021, SDP @ EMNLP 2020, SDP @ NAACL 2021, ICON 2020, EurNLP 2021, WiNLP 2020, mini-WiNLP @ AACL-IJCNLP 2020/EACL/ACL/NAACL 2021, WiNLP @ EMNLP 2021, FORCE 2021, and a shared task on Argumentation Mining (SciVer) at 2nd SDP @ NAACL 2021. Tirthankar is passionate on working in issues related diversity and inclusion in the research community. He was the Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) co-chair at AACL-IJCNLP, ACL 2020 (Financial Access), NAACL 2019 (Financial Access) and a current chair at WiNLP.

Tirthankar Ghosal

Muskaan Singh

Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Muskaan Singh is a researcher with the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Czech Republic. Her main research interests are Machine Translation and Automatic Text Summarization of Speech/Dialogues. She is exploring both extractive and abstractive approaches to the minuting module of ELITR along with its evaluation methods. She is also the co-organizer of the SummDial at SIGDial 2021.

Muskaan Singh

Anja Nedoluzhko

Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Anna Nedoluzhko is a researcher at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Prague. Her main research interests concern phenomena exceeding the sentence boundary (coreference, bridging, discourse analysis). She also participates in program committees of international NLP conferences and workshops, such as Linguistic Annotation Workshop at ACL and NAACL (LAW, 2010-2017), DepLing (2013), CORBON (collocated with NAACL, 2017), etc. She is one of the shared task organizers at the CRAC workshop (collocated with NAACL, 2018 and COLING in 2020).

Anja Nedoluzhko

Ondrej Bojar

Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Ondrej Bojar is an associate professor at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Prague.His main research interest is machine translation but he was also involved in treebanking and lexicographic projects at the department. He participated the Johns Hopkins University Summer Engineering Workshop in 2006 as a member of the Moses team. Since then, he has been regularly taking part in WMT shared translation tasks and co-organizing them since 2013, with specific focus on translation into Czech, on MT evaluation (WMT Metrics Task) and training aspects of both “classical” statistical MT (SMT) and neural MT. He has been the main local organizer of MT Marathons held in Prague (2009, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018). He teaches courses on SMT and NMT and machine learning, supervises many batchelor theses, some master theses and several PhD students. He has been working on several national research projects and two EU-funded projects: EuroMatrix (2006–2009), EuroMatrixPlus (2009–2012), MosesCore (2012–2015), QT21, HimL, CRACKER (all 2015–2018), being the local lead technical developer and manager in them since 2011.

Ondrej Bojar