Tuesday, December 19, 2017 |
| | + 9:00-9:30 Inaugural Ceremony |
| | + 9:30-10:30 Keynote Lecture 1 by Prof. Bjom W. Schuller |
| Keynote Lecture 1: NLP in Tomorrow’s Profiling - Words May Fail You
Björn W. Schuller |
| | + 10:30-11:00 Tea Break |
| | + 11:00-13:00 Technical Session I: Machine Translation and Speech: |
| Deriving Word Prosody from Orthography in Hindi
Somnath Roy |
| Three-phase training to address data sparsity in Neural Machine Translation
Ruchit Agrawal, Mihir Shekhar and Dipti Sharma |
| Reference Scope Identification for Citances Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Saurav Jha, Aanchal Chaurasia, Akhilesh Sudhakar and Anil Kumar Singh |
| A vis-à-vis evaluation of MT paradigms for linguistically distant languages
Ruchit Agrawal, Jahfar Ali and Dipti Misra Sharma |
| | + 11:00-13:00 Technical Session II : Text Categorization: |
| Textual Relations and Topic-Projection: Issues in Text Categorization
Lahari Chatterjee, Samir Karmakar and Abahan Datta |
| POS Tagging For Resource Poor Languages Through Feature Projection
Pruthwik Mishra, Vandan Mujadia and Dipti Misra Sharma |
| An Exploration of Word Embedding Initialization in Deep-Learning Tasks
Tom Kocmi and Ondrej Bojar |
| | + 11:00-13:00 Technical Session III : Parsing Code-mixed Data: |
| Curriculum Design for Code-switching: Experiments with Language Identification and Language Modeling with Deep Neural Networks
Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali, Sunayana Sitaram and Ashutosh Baheti |
| Quantitative Characterization of Code Switching Patterns in Complex Multi-Party Conversations: A Case Study on Hindi Movie Scripts
Adithya Pratapa and Monojit Choudhury |
| Towards Normalising Konkani-English Code-Mixed Social Media Text
Akshata Phadte and Gaurish Thakkar |
| Towards developing a phonetically balanced code-mixed speech corpus for Hindi-English ASR
Ayushi Pandey, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava and Suryakanth Gangashetty |
| | + 13:00-14:00 Lunch |
| | + 14:00-15:00 Keynote Lecture 2 by Prof. NG Hwee Tou |
| Keynote Lecture 2: Grammatical Error Correction: Past, Present and Future
NG Hwee Tou |
| | + 15:00-16:30 Technical Session IV : Information Extraction: |
| Hybrid Approach for Marathi Named Entity Recognition
Nita Patil, Ajay Patil and B.V. Pawar |
| Sentiment Analysis: An Empirical Comparative Study of Various Machine Learning Approaches
Swapnil Jain, Shrikant Malviya, Rohit Mishra and Uma Shanker Tiwary |
| | + 15:00-16:30 Technical Session V : Discourse and Dialogue: |
| Handling Multi-Sentence Queries in a Domain Independent Dialogue System
Prathyusha Jwalapuram and Radhika Mamidi |
| Document Level Novelty Detection: Textual Entailment Lends a Helping Hand
Tanik Saikh, Tirthankar Ghosal, Asif Ekbal and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| Is your Statement Purposeless? Predicting Computer Science Graduation Admission Acceptance based on Statement Of Purpose
Diptesh Kanojia, Nikhil Wani and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| | + 15:00-16:30 Technical Session VI : Lexical Analysis: |
| Natural Language Programing with Automatic Code Generation towards Solving Addition-Subtraction Word Problems
Sourav Mandal and Sudip Kumar Naskar |
| Unsupervised Separation of Transliterable and Native Words for Malayalam
Deepak P |
| Known Strangers: Cross Linguistic Patterns in Multilingual Multidirectional Dictionaries
Rejitha K. S. and Rajesha N. |
| | + 16:30-17:30 Tea Break |
| | + 16:30-17:30 Poster and Demo Session-I: |
| Tutorial for Deaf – Teaching Punjabi Alphabet using Synthetic Animations
Lalit Goyal and Vishal Goyal |
| SemTagger: A Novel Approach for Semantic Similarity Based Hashtag Recommendation on Twitter
Kuntal Dey, Ritvik Shrivastava, Saroj Kaushik and L. Venkata Subramaniam |
| Reasoning with Sets to Solve Simple Word Problems Automatically
Sowmya S Sundaram and Deepak Khemani |
| Improving NER for Clinical Texts by Ensemble Approach using Segment Representations
Hamada Nayel and H L Shashirekha |
| Beyond Word2Vec: Embedding Words and Phrases in Same Vector Space
Vijay Prakash Dwivedi and Manish Shrivastava |
| Relationship Extraction based on Category of Medical Concepts from Lexical Contexts
Anupam Mondal, Dipankar Das and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay |
| Sinhala Word Joiner
Rajith Priyanga, Surangika Ranatunga and Gihan Dias |
| Supervised Methods For Ranking Relations In Web Search
Sumit Asthana and Asif Ekbal |
| Malayalam VerbFrames
Jisha P Jayan, Asha S Nair and Govindaru V |
| Hindi Shabdamitra: A Wordnet based E-Learning Tool for Language Learning and Teaching
Hanumant Redkar, Sandhya Singh, Dhara Gorasia, Meenakshi Somasundaram, Malhar Kulkarni and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty" – Understanding the psycho-sociological influences to it
Updendra Kumar, Vishal Kumar Rana, Srinivas Pykl and Amitava Das |
| End to End Dialog System for Telugu
Prathyusha Danda, Prathyusha Jwalapuram and Manish Shrivastava |
| Investigating how well contextual features are captured by bi-directional recurrent neural network models
Kushal Chawla, Sunil Kumar Sahu and Ashish Anand |
| Correcting General Purpose ASR Errors using Posteriors
Sunil Kumar Kopparapu and C. Anantaram |
| Retrieving Similar Lyrics for Music Recommendation System
Braja Gopal Patra, Dipankar Das and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay |
| Unsupervised Morpheme Segmentation Through Numerical Weighting and Thresholding
Joy Mahapatra and Sudip Kumar Naskar |
| Experiments with Domain Dependent Dialogue Act Classification using Open-Domain Dialogue Corpora
Swapnil Hingmire, Apoorv Shrivastava, Girish Palshikar and Saurabh Srivastava |
| Normalization of Social Media Text using Deep Neural Networks
Ajay Shankar Tiwari and Sudip Kumar Naskar |
| Acronym Expansion: A General Approach Using Deep Learning
Aditya Thakker, Suhail Barot and Sudhir Bagul |
| Exploring an Efficient Handwritten Manipuri Meetei-Mayek Character Recognition Using Gradient Feature Extractor and Cosine Distance Based Multiclass k-Nearest Neighbor Classifier
Kishorjit Nongmeikapam, Wahengbam Kumar and Mithlesh Prasad Singh |
| A Modified Cosine-Similarity based Log Kernel for Support Vector Machines in the Domain of Text Classification
Rajendra Kumar Roul and Kushagr Arora |
| Document Embedding Generation for Cyber-Aggressive Comment Detection using Supervised Machine Learning Approach
Shylaja S S, Abhishek Narayanan, Abhijith Venugopal and Abhishek Prasad |
| Coarticulatory propensity in Khalkha Mongolian
Ushashi Banerjee, Indranil Dutta and Irfan S |
| Developing Lexicon and Classifier for Personality Identification in Texts
Kumar Gourav Das and Dipankar Das |
| Linguistic approach based Transfer Learning for Sentiment Classification in Hindi
Vartika Rai, Sakshee Vijay and Dipti Misra |
| Scalable Bio-Molecular Event Extraction System towards Knowledge Acquisition
Pattabhi Rk Rao, Sindhuja Gopalan and Sobha Lalitha Devi |
| Co-reference Resolution in Tamil Text
Vijay Sundar Ram and Sobha Lalitha Devi |
| Cross Linguistic Variations in Discourse Relations among Indian Languages
Sindhuja Gopalan, Lakshmi S and Sobha Lalitha Devi |
| RULE BASED APPROCH OF CLAUSE BOUNDARY IDENTI-FICATION IN TELUGU
Ganthoti Nagaraju, Thennarasu Sakkan and Christopher Mala |
| | + 17:30-19:30 NLPAI Meeting |
| | + 19:00-20:00 Cultural Programme |
| | + 20:00-Onwards Dinner |
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 |
| | + 9:30-10:30 Keynote Lecture 3 by Vasudeva Varmaa |
| Keynote Lecture 3: Towards Abstractive Summarization
Vasudeva Varma |
| | + 10:30-11:00 Tea Break |
| | + 11:00-13:00 Technical Session VII: Socio-Psycho Text Analysis: Emerging Trends |
| "Who Mentions Whom?"- Understanding the Psycho-Sociological Aspects of Twitter Mention Network
R Sudhesh Solomon, Abhay Narayan, Srinivas P Y K L and Amitava Das |
| Study on Visual Word Recognition in Bangla across Different Reader Groups
Manjira Sinha and Tirthankar Dasgupta |
| Demystifying Topology of Autopilot Thoughts: A Computational Analysis of Linguistic Patterns of Psychological Aspects in Mental Health
Bibekananda Kundu and Sanjay Choudhury |
| A Deep Dive into Identification of Characters from Mahabharata
Apurba Paul and Dipankar Das |
| | + 11:00-13:00 Technical Session VIII: Deep Neural Networks: |
| Neural Networks for Semantic Textual Similarity
Derek Prijatelj, Jugal Kalita and Jonathan Ventura |
| Open Set Text Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks
Sridhama Prakhya, Vinodini Venkataram and Jugal Kalita |
| Predicting User Competence from Linguistic Data
Yonas Woldemariam, Henrik Björklund and Suna Bensch |
| Neural Morphological Disambiguation Using Surface and Contextual Morphological Awareness
Akhilesh Sudhakar and Anil Kumar Singh |
| | + 11:00-13:00 Technical Session IX: Semantics: |
| Word Sense Disambiguation for Malayalam in a Conditional Random Field Framework
Junaida M K, Jisha P Jayan and Elizabeth Sherly |
| Semisupervied Data Driven Word Sense Disambiguation for Resource-poor Languages
Pratibha Rani, Vikram Pudi and Dipti M. Sharma |
| Notion of Semantics in Computer Science - A Systematic Literature Review
Sai Prasad Vrj Gollapudi and Venkatesh Choppella |
| Semantic Enrichment Across Language: A Case Study of Czech Bibliographic Databases
Pavel Smrz and Lubomir Otrusina |
| | + 13:00-14:00 Lunch Break |
| | + 14:00-15:00 Industry Talk |
| | + 15:00-15:30 Tea Break |
| | + 15:30-17:00 Technical Session X: Student Paper Contest |
| | + 15:30-17:00 Technical Session XI: NLP Tools Contest |
| | + 17:00-17:30 Valedictory Session |