NLP Webinar: Understanding NLP Beyond words- Jeena K K

 

Abstract of the Talk

With the advent of Deep Learning, Natural language Processing (NLP) is undergoing a revolutionary change. Every few months, if not weeks, a new DL model sets fresh benchmarks for existing NLP challenges and thereby creating more tougher ones. A fair share of this credit goes to the models' ability to represent the textual meaning at the phrasal, sentence, and even higher-levels beyond words. In this talk, we discuss the pros, cons, and intuition behind some popular deep learning models like Recurrent Neural networks (RNNs), Long Short Term Memory networks (LSTM), and Transformers. These models rely on compositional semantics, i.e., constructing complex meaning representations from the constituent word/token embedding (vectors). We hope to give a general overview of current DL trends in compositional semantics for natural language understanding. 

About the speaker

Ms. Jeena KK

Research Scholar

Dept. of CSE, NIT Calicut

Website: http://people.cse.nitc.ac.in/jeena 

Webinar Schedule

Date and Time: 17 Aug 2020, 2:30 PM

Meeting Link:    meet.google.com/cfx-jhxh-qut

R Language Workshop

Hands-on Workshop on R Language was organized at GEC, Palakkad by SIMPLE Groups on 17th November 2017. The workshop was organized at M.Tech Computational Linguistics Lab for First Year M.Tech Students. Datatypes, variables, decision making, loops and function concepts in R language were discussed using example programs.

Python Workshop

Hands-on Workshop on GUI Programming using Python was organised at GEC, Palakkad by SIMPLE Groups on 15th November 2017. The workshop was organised for S3 and S5 B.Tech CSE students at M.Tech Computational Linguistics Lab. GUI Programming using Tkinter was introduced to the students using many hands-on example programs.

Launching of SIMPLE Groups Activities 2017-2018

The inaugural ceremony of the launching of SIMPLE Groups Activities for the academic year 2017-2018 was held on 13th November 2017. The function was presided by Dr. Rafeeque P C, HOD CSE Department and inaugurated by Dr. P C Reghuraj, Principal, GEC Palakkad. Felicitation speech was given by Shine S, PG coordinator and A. R. Jayan, Convener, HRD Cell. Several teaching and non teaching staffs and student representatives from all B.Tech batches attended the program. The details of activities planned for this academic year were discussed in the function.

CLIP- "Computational Linguistics in Industrial Perspective"

CLIP is a Simple initiative which gives an insight to the industrial perspective of computational linguistics field. The workshop was held on October 1st of 2016 and it was handled by Robert Jesuraj, Manu Madhavan, Gopalakrishnan K and Sreejith C who are the 1st and 2nd batch M Tech students of Govt. Engg. College Sreekrishnapuram. They are admirable resource persons who have got great industrial exposure in the field of computational linguistics. Robert Jesuraj is working as Text Mining and Machine Learning Specialist in EY, Trivandrum. Manu Madhavan, he is Research Scholar, at Bio-computing Research Lab, CSED, NIT Calicut. Gopalakrishnan K is NLP Engineer at CogniCor, Kochi. Sreejith C is Data scientist at UVJ Technologies, Kochi.

It was an interactive class for PG students. The first session was handled by Manu Madhavan and it was about "Introduction to computational linguistics". He gave a broad idea about our field. Next session was handled by Sreejith and he gave an introduction to "Data Science", What is actually a data scientist? What are the qualities of a data scientist? and the languages to be known by them. Robert Jesuraj and Manu Madhavan handled the afternoon session, mainly they taught about python and how to program in Jupyter IDE. The next session was handled by Gopalakrishnan K and taught us about "Text mining and its applications" along with his industrial experience . Final session was about, CL and its scope and also about CLEAR and SIMPLE Gropus activites.

Talk By Dr. Vaskar Ray Choudhary

Dr. Vaskar RayChoudhary one among the most reputed professors of IIT Roorkee visited our college on 31 st March. He visited our college and delivered expert talks on Introduction to Pervasive Computing & Networking, Synergy between Internet of Things, Big Data, and Cloud Computing towards a Smart City initiative. It was a 2 day session organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering. On 31 st March, the interaction with PG students began by afternoon as per the schedule. Both the first and second year M .Tech Computational Linguistics batch students attended the class. On 1 st April the talk was about Research Guidance, How to read, write and present a research paper. The second day session was very useful to both students and faculties. We, the students of M Tech CL are very much thankful to Head of the Department and Dr. Ajeesh Ramanujan sir for providing us such an opportunity.

Talk By Prof. T V Geetha

Dr. Geetha T V is a professor in Department of Computer Science & Engineering in Anna University, Chennai. She completed her M Tech from Anna University in the year 1986 and also PhD from Anna University in the year 1992. And her areas of specialisation NLP, Intelligent databases, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining. The talk was about Text Categorization and Word sense disambiguation and various issues associated. In the following discussions there was about hand-on sections on text processing, Information retrieval techniques and different algorithms. We got wonderful opportunity to have such a session on text categorization and word sense disambiguation and we, the students of M.Tech CL is hence sincerely thankful to Head of the Department and Kala miss for providing us such an opportunity.

Workshop on Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics

The four day workshop was held at GEC Sreekrishnapuram from February 29th – March 3rd 2016 organized by CSE Department. Eminent personalities from NIT Surathkal, GCE Kannur and MESCE Kuttippuram gave sessions on Cloud Computing Issues and Challenges, Green Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Cloud Service Development, Virtualization and Virtual Machines, Big Data Analytics using Hadoop, Cloud Security and CloudSim. On the first day of the workshop there was a session on Introduction to Cloud computing & Issues and Challenges by Dr. Chandrasekaran K, NIT Surathkal. Next session discussed about Green Cloud Computing, Mobile Cloud Computing. It was an interesting session. Second day session was mainly focused on Introduction to Virtualization and Virtual Machines by Mr. Lino Abraham Varghese, MESCE, Kuttippuram. Afternoon session was handled by Mr. Sreejith V P, GCE Kannur, about Cloud Service Development and followed by hands on training on communication between VMs. The third day session was on Big Data Analytics using Hadoop by Mr. Sreejith V P, GCE Kannur. Next session was training on setting up of Hadoop single node cluster by Mr. Lino Abraham Varghese. The last day dealt with Cloud Security and CloudSim by Edet Bijoy K from MESCE, Kuttippuram.

WORKSHOP ON SEMANTIC WEB

A one day workshop was held at GEC Sreekrishnapuram on February 15 2016 organized by CSE Department. The session was handled by Sangeetha, Research Scholar from IIT Madras. In the forenoon session she explained about the Ontology and working of Protégé 5. She claims that through this work, we can replace the existing database in which we need to formulate queries for each instance but the Protégé have the ability to map automatically from the already given information. And the afternoon session ended with the familiarisation of the Protégé 5 toolkit. It was an interesting and lively session..

WORKSHOP ON SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES

The five day workshop on Soft computing techniques was held at GEC Sreekrishnapuram from 8-12th February 2016 organized by IT Department. Eminent personalities from NIT Trichy and CET gave sessions on topics: Genetic algorithms, Neural Networks, Fuzzy logic and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). On the First day of workshop there was a session on Introduction to Soft computing and ANN by Mr. Sishaj P Simon, Assistant Professor, NIT Trichy followed by a MATLAB familiarization session. Second day session discussed about PSO and Genetic algorithms which was handled by Mr. U Sreenivasulu Reddy, Assistant Professor, NIT Trichy. It was an interesting session. Third day session was mainly focused on Fuzzy logic by Mr. Vipin Vasu M, Assistant Professor, CET. On the fourth and fifth day the session was on Soft Computing techniques using MATLAB by R. Thamaraiselvan, Senior analyst, Infosys, Chennai. The session was highly beneficial to staff and students, giving them an exposure to MATLAB.

Talk by Prof. Kalyana Krishnan R

Professor R Kalyana Krishnan, one among the most reputed Professors of IIT Madras visited our college on 16th of September 2014. Prof. Kalyana Krishnan was retired from IIT Madras in March 2011 after a long service lasting nearly four decades. He visited our college and delivered expert talks on various engineering fields for both postgraduate and undergraduate students.

Interaction with PG students began by afternoon as per the schedule. Both the first and second year M.tech Computational Linguistics batch students attended the class. The talk was centered around text processing and various issues associated with it. After providing a short introduction on the mathematical basis provided to text processing, the discussion advanced to the much anticipated Multilingual text processing.

The question "Which is the most frequent alphabet in Malayalam text?" made us realize that we know only a little about our own mother tongue. Prof. Kalyana Krishnan also found time to compare English with Malayalam. English has only 26 alphabets compared to Malayalam, where a careful study would reveal that the actual numbers, also counting koottaksharam, are way beyond what we have imagined. This fact might bias us towards English as it is easy to learn comparatively, but this easiness comes with a cost. For all those who are familiar with language processing in English would easily find that there exist a long list of homophones that makes text to speech a tedious task in English. Prof. Kalyana Krishnan emphasized the point that no two person would pronounce the same text differently in Malayalam. That is, there exists no homophones in Malayalam, a quality that we should all be proud of. This is not incidental but rather by the design of Malayalam "Aksharas". Its meaning (not moving, stationary, non ambiguous) itself explains this fact.

Later the talk proceeded with issues regarding the character encodings in Malayalam, mostly the ones associated with Koottaksharams. Then the Professor made us realize the beauty of Malayalam and asked us to envy the expertise with which the Indian literatures were written. The beauty of Indian literature further drove the discussions towards the Rama Krishna Viloma Kavyam, a sloka build of palindromes, containing as long as 64 slokas, that depicts the chronicles of Lord Krishna when read in one direction and that of Rama when read in the opposite direction. The excellence of the epic Mahabharatha was the other interesting literary work that came into our discussion. The ancient literature in India was magnificent in many aspects like conveying more ideas in the forms of short slokas. The knowledge that every 1000th sloka in Mahabharatha had dual meanings and the reason behind it, was absolutely new to us.

The Professor, before concluding our short session, asked the students to sent a mail to his personal mail id that describes what each of us perceived from his class. This is a practice which he had always asked from his students, to make them improve the way they express themselves. Professor did also found himself time to reply and suggest some further readings to all those who mailed him their experience and what they understood from the talk.

Opportunities like this where we could share our thoughts and ideas with experts like Prof. Kalyana Krishnan comes rarely in a lifetime. We, the students of M.Tech CL is hence sincerely thankful to our department and our Head of the department for providing us such an opportunity.

Farewell

Yet another milestone was conquered by simple groups when the students of second batch (2012-14) of Computational Linguistics successfully completed their M.Tech course. It was an academically eventful period they spent at the institution. Research projects were taken up and several publications resulted from them. Workshops, expert talks etc., were organized by them. They also attended similar programs at various other institutions that brought about the sharing of knowledge. Their examination results were spectacular. Besides academics they also have a story of radiant life at the institution - a  story of friendship sprinkled with love, helping and taking care of each other.

A farewell party was organized by the junior batch (2013-15) for their outgoing seniors. The forenoon session of the function was a get-together of staff, faculty and students. First, Dr. P. C. Reghu Raj  shared his memories and experiences with the batch, gave a final word of advice for them and wished all of them all the successes in their future endeavors. Then the other staffs also recalled the times with them and gifted them with well wishes and enlightenments. The students also shared their memories in the college, and gave their feedback on the course and the institution. They had suggestions on how to further improve the system here and they also gave valuable directions to their junior batch regarding various aspects of the course and project works.

The forenoon function was concluded and a lush lunch was served. Then the students of both batches gathered for some games and other fun activities. The party was hilarious and filled with excitement. Towards the end, when everyone recollected their past days and took a trip down the memory lane it turned nostalgic and heart-warming. Thus the second batch of Computational Linguistics bid good bye to the college with a bunch of treasured memories and colourful achievements, with a promise to stay connected.

Workshop on Softcomputing

The three day workshop on Soft computing, was held at GEC Sreekrishnapuram from 9-11 th January 2014. It was organized by IIST Trivandrum. Eminent personalities from IIST, IIT Delhi and M.S.U Baroda gave sessions on topics Genetic algorithms, Neural networks, Fuzzy logic and Data-mining.

The workshop was inaugurated by  Dr.P.C.Reghu Raj, Principal of GEC Sreekrishnapuram.  First session was based on Fuzzy logic by Dr.Deepak Mishra, IIST Trivandrum and is followed by another wonderful session on Google Page Ranking algorithm by Dr.Sumitra.S.Nair, IIST Trvandrum. First day of workshop came to an end with a session on Artificial Neural Networks by Prof.Raju.K.George ,IIST Trivandrum followed by a lab session.

On Second day there was a great session on Genetic algorithms by Prof.V.D Pathak, M.S.U Baroda. And then there was a session on ‘Theory of Kernal Methods’ by Dr.Sumitra.S.Nair ,IIST Trivandrum. Second day ended with a lab session on ANNs.

Third day session mainly focused on Data Mining and It’s applications. The session was by Prof.B.Chandra ,IIT  Delhi.It was an interesting session.

The three day workshop came to an end with the distribution of certificates to all the participants by Prof.B.Chandra  and Prof.V.D Pathak.

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.

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 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.

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.!

CLEAR-2012 Launching Ceremony

Cover Page: CLEAR Sept 2012

               The first issue of technical magazine CLEAR, an initiative under SIMPLE Group, was released by Principal Prof. Shoukathali on 13th September 2012. The releasing function was arranged at the Principal 's office. In the presence of members of Staff Council, Faculties and staff of Department of CSE, and students of M.Tech CL  the Chief Editor of CLEAR Dr. P. C Reghu Raj ( Professor and Head, Dept. of CSE), handed over the first issue to the Principal.

About CLEAR

               The magazine CLEAR- Computational Linguistics in Engineering And Research- is an on-line magazine, publishing from GEC, Sreekrishnapuram. The magazine aims to discuss different activities in the area of Computational Linguistics and co-ordinate different programs in this area.

               The September issue received articles from researchers and academicians like Dr. Achutshankar, Prof. Jathavedan, Dr.Sudheer Marar etc.

                The magazine is proposed to publish once in the span of three months.  Next issue will launch in month of December, 2012.

For on-line reading click here

Simple but Proud Moments..

Dr. Reghu Raj(left) hand-overing the Magazine to the Principal(Right)

Principal unveiling CLEAR

Principal with CLEAR magazine