inaugural function
Joint Inaugural: 7th International Conference of Natural Language Processing (ICON) and 31st All-India Conference of Linguists (AICL), 2009
Date: Tuesday, 15th December 2009
Venue: DST Auditorium, University of Hyderabad
Pre-inaugural registration: 8.30am to 9.00am
INAUGURAL SESSION: 9.00am to 10.00am
Chair
Professor Prakash Sarangi
Pro-Vice-Chancellor
University of Hyderabad
Welcome Address
Professor Mohan G Ramanan
Dean
School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad
Introduction to AICL2009 & ICON2009
Professor Garapati Umamaheshwar Rao
Head, CALTS, University of Hyderabad
Remarks by AICL2009 General Chair & President of the Linguistic Society of India
Prof. Peri Bhaskara Rao
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Remarks by ICON2009 General Chair & President of the NLP Association, India
Prof. Rajeev Sangal
Director, IIIT-Hyderabad
Program Walk-Through
AICL2009: Dr G Umamaheshwara Rao, Programme Chair, AICL-31
ICON2009: Dr. Dipti Misra Sharma, Programme Chair, ICON-2009
Felicitation
Professor Bh. Krishnamurti (Renowned Linguist and Former Vice-Chancellor, University of Hyderabad)
Felicitation address by Professor Bh Krishnamurti
Speeches
ICON Advisory Chair Professor Aravind Joshi
The Chair Professor Prakash Sarangi (Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Hyderabad)
Vote of Thanks
Professor K S Nagaraja, Secretary, Linguistic Society of India
PLENARY: 10.00am to 11.00am
Inaugural Lecture
Discourse, Genre and Language Technology - by Prof Bonnie L Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK
organizing bodies
latest updates
23rd nov 2009
The technical schedule has been released. 
23rd nov 2009
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contact us
ICON-2009 Secretariat
Language Technologies Research Centre
International Institute of Information Technology
Gachibowli
Hyderabad - 500032, India
Tel: +91-40.23001412
Fax: +91-40.66531413
icon2009@iiit.ac.in