New Publication in IJERT

The paper entitled " Agglomerative Sentence Clustering Approach for Discourse Segmentation", co-authered by Christopher Augustin and Dr. P.C. Reghu Raj, has been published in December issue of International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT).

The paper can be read online from here.

SIMPLE Groups congratulates Christopher for this achievement.

PADAM: Project Code Published under GPL

An  Opening to the Open World

Happy to inform that, SIMPLE Groups, marked the entry to the open world by  making the project code of PADAM  openly available.

Pratctical Aid for Disambiguation Application in Malayalam (PADAM), is one of the prestigious project from SIMPLE Groups, done by  Mujeeb Rehman, as part of his master thesis. He also published his work in IJLTET, November issue. Now, the code has been published as open source for researchers and other language enthusiasts under GPL. 

We congratulates Mujeeb Rehman for making the vision and mission of SIMPLE Groups True, by this wonderful Xmas -New year Gift!!!

The code can be downloaded from  GitHub.

CLEAR Dec 2013 Published

The sixth issue of CLEAR published on December 19, 2013.  This edition of CLEAR comes with a tagline " Special Edition on NLP tool kits " and focuses on various NLP Toolkits such as HTK, Apache Lucene, FrameNet, ORANGE, R Language and Apertium tool kit.  The next issue will be on March 2014.

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Publication in IJERD

The paper entitled " Semantic Role Extraction and General Concept Understanding in Malayalam using Paninian Grammar", authored by  Radhika K T, under the supervision of Dr. P. C.  Reghu Raj is published in International Journal of Engineering Research and Development, Volume 9, Issue 3 December 2013. 

The paper can be read online from here

SIMPLE Groups, congratulate Radhika K T for her achievement. 

New Publications: in IJLTET

This month started by two new publications from SIMPLE groups, in International Journal of Latest Trends in Engineering and Technology (IJLTET), by Ayisha Noori and Mujeeb Rehman. SIMPLE Groups congratulate both of them for their achievement . 

The details of publications are:

Mujeeb Rehman O., P. C. Reghu Raj, "Malayalam Wordnet: A Relational Database Approach" ,  Read

Ayisha Noori V. K, P. C. Reghu Raj, "Extraction of Disease Relationship from Medical Records: Vector Based Approach"  , Read

Three day workshop on " Research Methodology and Intellectual Property Rights"

The three day  training program-cum-workshop on Research Methodologies and Intellectual Property Rights, was held at GEC Sreekrishnapuram during 21st - 23rd November, 2013. The program was organized by CERD ( Centre for Engineering Research and Development ) and KSCSTE (Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment) Trivandrum. Eminent personalities from CERD, KSCSTE, academicians from reputed institutions gave sessions on various aspects of research. More than 30 faculties and PG students attended the workshop.

The first day of the workshop started  with an welcome address by Dr.P.C.Reghu Raj, Principal of GEC Sreekrishnapuram. After that the workshop was inaugurated by Dr. K.Balan, Director, CERD Trivandrum followed by his inaugural speech. The first day of the workshop came to an end with a motivational talk by Dr. K.K.Sasi, Professor Dept of E.E.E., Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. The session was mainly based on various myths and realities related to research.

 

On the second day of the workshop(22nd November, 2013), the chief speakers were from KSCSTE (Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment) Trivandrum. The session commenced with a talk on various funding schemes available from KSCSTE, for promoting technical education and research activities by Dr. V.Ajith Prabhu and Mr. Shafikh S.

The final day of the workshop was handled by two eminent academicians par excellence, Dr.K.P.Mohandas Dean-Academic, MES College of Engg., Kuttipuram and Dr. K.B.M. Nambudiripad, Former Professor of Mechanial Dept., NIT Calicut.

After that there was a feedback session in which various faculties and students gave their feedback about the workshop. The three day workshop came to an end with the distribution of certificates to all the participants by Dr.K.P.Mohandas and Dr. K.B.M. Nambudiripad.

Publication in IJCLNLP

The paper  titled "Morphological Analyzer for Malayalam: Probabilistic Method Vs Rule Based Method", by  Rinju O.R. of M. Tech Computational Linguistics  is accepted and published in volume 2 issue 10 October 2013   of  International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (IJCLNLP). 

SIMPLE Groups congratulates Rinju O.R  for her achievement. 

Publication Details:

Rinju O.R., Rajeev R. R., Reghu Raj P.C., Elizabeth Sherly, "  Morphological Analyzer for Malayalam: Probabilistic Method Vs Rule Based Method" , IJCLNLP  volume 2 issue 10 October 2013 

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Three Day Workshop on "Research Methodology and Intellectual Property Rights"

CERD Satellite Centre GEC Sreekrishnapuram, Palakkad and  Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) Trivandrum , is jointly organizing a three day workshop on " Research Methodology and Intellectual Property Rights" during 21-23 November 2013. The workshop is intended mainly for the faculty of Government Engineering College, Sreekrishnapuram and those from nearby Govt. aided or self financing Colleges. Final year M.Tech students can also participate.

Venue  :  Govt. Engineering College, Palakkad, EDUSAT Room.
Date     :  21-23 November 2013

We invite you to the workshop and also request to forward the same to interested friends/students.                                                                        
Click here for the programme brochure and application form.

ICON 2013

The paper titled "Design of a Scalable Natural Language Report Management System" authored by Manu Madhavan, and Robert Jesuraj is accepted for Poster Presentation in International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)-2013.

The poster presentation session is a vital component of the conference, giving researchers an opportunity for one-on-one interaction with other researchers and attendees.  Papers accepted for poster presentation will be included in the Short Communications section of ICON-2013 proceedings.

Abstract of papers presented in ICON Conference 2013 are also shortlisted for upload on TDIL-DC portal. TDIL Data Center (http://tdil-dc.in) is an initiative of Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India for creating a national repository of Indian language tools, technologies, research papers and many more.

SIMPLE Groups congratulates Manu and Robert  for their achievement.

Publication in IJWesT

The paper titled " Architecture of an Ontology Based Domain Specific Natural Language Question Answering System ", authored by Athira P and Sreeja M is published in October issue of International Journal of Web & Semantic Technology (IJWesT).

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SIMPLE Groups congratulates Athira and Sreeja for their achievement.

IEEE ICCC 2013

Reshma O K

The following papers from M tech Computational Linguistics are presented in the IEEE ICCC 2013 - International Conference on Control, Communication and Computing conference, which was held on december 13-15 2013.

• "An Effective Malayalam Information Retrieval System Using Query Expansion" by O.K Reshma,  Sreejith C
• "LALITHA: A Light Weight Malayalam Stemmer Using Suffix Stripping Method" by Prajitha U ,  Sreejith C
• "STHREE: Stemmer for Malayalam Using Three Pass Algorithm" by Pragisha

 

The conference was held at Hotel Residency Tower Trivandrum in parallel sessions. A technical exhibition and tutorial sessions are also envisaged along with the conference.  

Prajitha U

IEEE Kerala Section was the technical co-sponsor for this conference and all the papers presented at the conference will be published through IEEE Xplore Digital Library. 

SIMPLE Groups Congratulates all of them for their achievement !!!.

New Publication in IJARCSSE

The paper  titled "Structured Information Extraction from On-line Advertisements-A Bayesian Approach", by  Saani H of M. Tech Computational Lingusitcs, is accepted and published in Volume 3 Issue 9 – September 2013 of International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE). 

SIMPLE Groups congratulates Saani H for her achievement. 

Publication Details:

Saani H, Dr. P. C. Reghu Raj, " Structured Information Extraction from On-line Advertisements-A Bayesian Approach" , IJARCSSE, Volume 3 Issue 9 – September 2013. 

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Workshop on Multilingual Computing

Mtech Computational Linguistics, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Government Engineering College Sreekrishnapuram organized an one day workshop on " Multilingual Computing " ( sponsored by TEQIP Phase 2) in association with Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (SMC )  on October 7 2013. The purpose of the workshop was to get familiarized with various challenges and issues related to language engineering and computing. The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. P C Reghu Raj , Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The keynote speech was delivered by Mr. Santhosh Thottingal, Senior Software Engineer at Language Engineering team Wikimedia Foundation and project admin of SMC. Mr. Santhosh presented the need for greater emphasis on software localization and need of multilingual computing systems. He also illustrated various tools and projects related to Malayalam Computing. Later Mr Robert  introduced the basics of  Natural language programming and Mr Manu took a session on Semantic Web. The workshop was attended by more than 70 participants.

One day workshop on " Multilingual Computing "

Greetings,

The M.Tech Computational Linguistics students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Government Engineering College, Palakkad in association with Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is organising a one day workshop on "Multilingual Computing" on 7th October 2013.

We invite you to the workshop and also request to forward the same to interested friends/students.

                           

Venue  :  Govt. Engineering College, Palakkad, EDUSAT Room.
Date     : 7th October 2013

Time    :  9.15 a.m.                                                                                

Click here for the programme brochure and the invitation.

NB: The number of seats are limited to fifty(50) with preference to GEC, Palakkad students.
Email : simplequest.in@gmail.com

CLEAR-Dec 2013-Article Invitation

Student's Innovations in Morphology, Phonology and 

Language Engineering (SIMPLE)-Groups

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

Govt. Engineering College, Sreekrishnapuram

Palakkad, 678633

Inviting Article for CLEAR Dec 2013

We are inviting thought-provoking articles, interesting dialogues and healthy debates on multifaceted aspects of Computational Linguistics, for the forthcoming issue of CLEAR ( Computational Linguistics in Engineering And Research) magazine, publishing on Dec 2013. The topics of the articles would preferably be related to the areas of Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Information Retrieval.

Call for Papers

Machine Translation	Web Information Extraction/Mining
Speech Recognition/Understanding	Information Retrieval and Extraction
Speech Analysis/Synthesis	Quantitative Linguistics
Computational Models	Language Learning
Computational Linguistics	Linguistics Modelling Techniques
Computational Theories	Multilingual/Cross-lingual Language Processing
Natural Language Processing	Corpus Linguistics
Spoken Dialog Systems	Software Engineering for NLP
Formal Linguistics-Theoretic and Grammar Induction	Language and Social Networks
Computational Semantics	Applying NLP on Domain Specific Data
Automatic Text Summarization	Lexical Semantics, Word Sense Disambiguation
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining	Human-Computer Dialogue Systems
Models of Cognitive Processes	Discourse and Anaphora
Ques/Ans and Dialogue Systems	Morph Analyzer
Textual Entailment	Multimodal Representations and Processing
Natural Language Interface for Database	Deep Learning in NLP

The articles may be sent to the Editor on or before 10th December, 2013 through the email simplequest.in@gmail.com.

Editor
CLEAR Magazine                                                                           

CLEAR Birthday & ONAM Celebration 2013

SIMPLE groups celebrated the first birthday of CLEAR along with Onam celebration on 11th September 2013. As a part of the celebration the fifth issue of CLEAR magazine was released by the Chief Editor of CLEAR Dr. P.C.Reghuraj (Professor and Head of Dept. of CSE). The birthday edition release was followed by a delicious 'ONASADYA' as a part of ONAM celebration.

CLEAR-Sep-2013: Published

The fifth issue of CLEAR published on September 12, 2013. With this issue CLEAR celebrates its first b'day. This issue discusses a new method for automatic headline generation , NLP and Semantic Web for Competitive intelligence, Statistical NLP Toolkits, PRISM, ScalaNLP ,  and on farewell party of 2011-13 batch.  The next issue will be on Dec 2013.

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Workshop on " Art of Research "

Ancy, Deepa, Divya, Indu, Nibeesh, Prajitha, Sincy, Sreeja, Sreejith and Varsha of Second year M.Tech Computational Linguistics attended the one day workshop on " Art of Research " Conducted by Department of Computer Applications, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore in association with Advanced Computing and Communications Society, Coimbatore Chapter on 24 August 2013. The various sessions in the workshop were handled by  Dr. Saragur M Srinidhi , Dr. S.K. Sinha and Dr. S. Rajasekaran. The workshop discussed on various research issues, research methodologies, research strategies and current research opportunities. The workshop was very inspiring, motivational and enriched the participants on several aspects of research.

New Publication in IJLTET

The paper  titled "Dysarthric Speech Enhancement using Formant Trajectory Refinement", by Divya Das of M. Tech Computational Lingusitcs, is accepted and published in Volume 2 Issue 4 – July 2013 of International Journal of Latest Trends in Engineering and Technology (IJLTET). The paper is part of her project work at Machine Intelligence Lab of Amrita Vishwavidhya peedam.

SIMPLE Groups congratulates Divya Das for her achievement.

Publication Details:

Divya Das, Dr. C. Santhosh Kumar, Dr. P. C. Reghu Raj, " Dysarthric Speech Enhancement using Formant Trajectory Refinement" , IJLTET, Volume 2 Issue 4 – July 2013. 

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CLEAR-Sept 2013-Article Invitation

Student's Innovations in Morphology, Phonology and 

Language Engineering (SIMPLE)-Groups

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

Govt. Engineering College, Sreekrishnapuram

Palakkad, 678633

Inviting Article for CLEAR Sept 2013

We are inviting thought-provoking articles, interesting dialogues and healthy debates on multifaceted aspects of Computational Linguistics, for the forthcoming issue of CLEAR ( Computational Linguistics in Engineering And Research) magazine, publishing on Sept 2013. The topics of the articles would preferably be related to the areas of Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Information Retrieval.

Call for Papers

Machine Translation	Web Information Extraction/Mining
Speech Recognition/Understanding	Information Retrieval and Extraction
Speech Analysis/Synthesis	Quantitative Linguistics
Computational Models	Language Learning
Computational Linguistics	Linguistics Modelling Techniques
Computational Theories	Multilingual/Cross-lingual Language Processing
Natural Language Processing	Corpus Linguistics
Spoken Dialog Systems	Software Engineering for NLP
Formal Linguistics-Theoretic and Grammar Induction	Language and Social Networks
Computational Semantics	Applying NLP on Domain Specific Data
Automatic Text Summarization	Lexical Semantics, Word Sense Disambiguation
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining	Human-Computer Dialogue Systems
Models of Cognitive Processes	Discourse and Anaphora
Ques/Ans and Dialogue Systems	Morph Analyzer
Textual Entailment	Multimodal Representations and Processing
Natural Language Interface for Database	Deep Learning in NLP

Download Call for Papers

The articles may be sent to the Editor on or before 10th September, 2013 through the email simplequest.in@gmail.com.

    Representative                                            Editor

    SIMPLE Groups                                         CLEAR Magazine

Adieu to First Batch of SIMPLE Groups

The pioneer batch (2011-2013) from Simple groups successfully completed their course in Computational Linguistics. The students from the 2012-14 batch had organized a Farewell party for their seniors on 31st July 2013. The function kicked off in the forenoon session with a bundle of games and entertainment. Later, the faculties including HOD joined the students for a sumptuous lunch.  The formal meeting in the afternoon session was inaugurated by Dr. P.C. Reghu Raj, the Head of Computer Science department, with an inaugural speech. During his speech, he shared some of his memories and congratulated the winners in various events. He concluded by wishing good luck to all of them in all their future endeavors. After that, the senior faculties Asst. Prof. C. Nazeer and Asst. Prof. R. Binu, followed by other staff members from CS department shared their memories with the first batch. There was a mixture of emotions among the audience when each one from the senior batch started sharing their experiences. Everyone thanked the HOD and other faculty members for their endearing efforts in helping them during the course. It was a memorable and eventful day for the Simple groups with great enthusiasm and a lot of nostalgia. 

SIMPLE Groups wishes all of them, the very best in their life ahead.!

Semantic Web Workshop

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore had organized a two days (26th & 27th July 2013) intensive training program on "Semantic Web: Tools and Applications". The workshop was mainly related to semantic web concepts, technologies, and its applications to various fields like search engines. The workshop included sessions on various concepts of ontologies, their implementation and mathematics of ontologies. They also provided lab sessions on Protege editor and SPARQL. The sessions were conducted by various experienced professors like Dr. T.V.Geetha and Dr. Ilango Krishnamurthi. Research scholars, faculties and PG scholars from various institutions participated in the workshop. The M.Tech 2012-14 batch from SIMPLE group attended the workshop. The sessions were really helpful and informative.

New Publication in IJCLNLP

Paper titled “Rule-Based  Grapheme  to  Phoneme  Converter  for  Malayalam“ by Rechitha and Sumi, published in July issue of International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (IJCLNLP).

SIMPLE Groups congratulates Rechitha and Sumi for their achievement!!!.

Publication Details:

Sumi S Nair, Rechitha C, C Santhosh Kumar ,"Rule-Based Grapheme to Phoneme Converter for 
Malayalam", IJCLNLP,Vol 2 Issue 7 July 2013

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ICCCNT 2013

Sreejith C, presented the paper titled "N-gram based Algorithm for distinguishing between Hindi and Sanskrit texts" , co-authored with Indu M from M.Tech Computational Linguistics. The section was chaired by Dr. Bill Buckles, University of North Texas , USA.

Dr. Bill Buckles, congratulating Sreejith

The Fourth International Conference on Computing, Communications and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT 2013) was held at Vivekanandha College of Engineering for Women,Tiruchengode, Tamilnadu, India, on July 4-6, 2013. The conference aims to provide a forum that brings together International researchers from academia and practitioners in industry to meet and exchange ideas and recent research work on all aspects of Information and Communication Technologies.

The proceedings of ICCCNT 2013 will be published in IEEE Xplore.

link :
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=6726777&queryText%3Dsreejith#

SIMPLE Groups Congratulates Sreejith and Indu for their achievement !!!. 

CLEAR-Jun-2013: Published

The fourth issue of CLEAR published on July, 2013. The magazine in this issue contains articles on Question Answering, Malayalam Computing, Human language processing in biological processing and a comparative introduction for ClearTk. This issue also contains the details of M.Tech Master Research Projects, carried out by the first M.Tech batch students of the Institute.

The next issue will be on September 2013.

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CLEAR-June-2013

Talk on TBI

A talk on Technology-Business Incubator and its opportunities for young engineers was held on 12th June 2013. Smt. Preethi M, Manager, TBI, National Institute of Technology  Calicut (NITC) delivered the session based on the need for Technology Business Incubators. 

The primary goal of TBI is to facilitate economic development by improving survival and growth of new entrepreneurial units. They provide workspace with shared office facilities with emphasis on business and professional services necessary for nurturing and supporting early stage growth of technology based enterprises. The NITC has set up a Technology Business Incubator TBI-NITC with the support of  National
Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Department of Science&Technology, Govt. of India, to incubate start up industries in the field of IT and electronics.

During the session, Smt. Preethi explained the success stories of several entrepreneurs, for whom TBI had lend their helping hands. These successful entrepreneurs ranges from educated technocrats to laymen. One of the triumphant entrepreneur, she was talking about was an alumni  from GEC Sreekrishnapuram, Sri. Lepeesh Parat (Managing Director & CEO at ZestyBeanz Technologies Pvt Ltd.). These stories really inspired all the participants including M.Tech and B.Tech students. The session was really motivational and informative.

Divya S attended ICMCMM-2013

International Conference of Mathematical Modelling in Computer Management and Medical Sciences 2013 (ICMCMM 2013) a multidisciplinary conference jointly organized by the Department of Computer Applications, Mar Athanasios College for Advanced Studies Tiruvalla (MACFAST) and Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, in association with the CSI and KMA was held on 13-15 June 2013 at Thiruvalla. Divya, presenting her paper Divya S from M.Tech Computational Linguistics presented a paper titled "News Summarization based on Sentence Clustering and Sentence Ranking".  The reviews and comments she received were both positive and showcasing the applications of CL. SIMPLE Groups Congratulates Divya for her achievement !!!.