Research Interests
- Natural Language Processing
- Textual Entailment
- Cross Lingual Textual Entailment
- Question Answering
- Information Retrieval
- Semantic Texual Similarity
- Sentiment Analysis
- Natural Language Generation
- Machine Translation
- Quantum Computing
- Gender Equality and Gender Bias
Research TEAM
STUDENT GUIDANCE
PhD (guiding students of NIT Silchar, other NITs, and Universities)
PhD: 04 (Completed), 09 (Ongoing)
NIT Silchar PhD Students:
Category-A (Full Time)
| Sl No | Name | Title | Role | Duration | Institute | Status |
| 1 | Pankaj Kundan Dadure | Design and Implementation of Formula Embedding Techniques for Mathematical Information Retrieval | Supervisor | 2019-2022 | NIT Silchar | Completed (28.11.2022) |
| 2 | Sahinur Rahman Laskar | A Low Resource Language Pair Translation based on Statistical and Neural Machine Translation Approaches | Supervisor | 2019-now | NIT Silchar | Thesis Submitted |
| 3 | Advaitha Vetagiri | Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Models in Natural Language Processing | Supervisor | 2021-now | NIT Silchar | Ongoing (Comprehensive completed) |
| 4 | Shyambabu Pandey | Quantum Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing Applications | Supervisor | 2021-now | NIT SIlchar | Ongoing (Comprehensive completed) |
| 5 | Annepaka Yadagiri | Caption Generation | Supervisor | 2022 – now | NIT Silchar | Ongoing (Course Work ongoing) |
Category-B (Part Time)
| Sl No | Name | Title | Role | Duration | Institute | Status |
| 1 | Ravi Gorli | Machine Translation | Supervisor | 2021-now | NIT Silchar | Ongoing |
| 2 | Murry Swathi | Gender Bias | Supervisor | 2022-now | NIT Silchar | Ongoing |
Other institute PhD Students:
| Sl No | Name | Title | Role | Duration | Institute |
| 1 | Ms. Vanlalmuansangi Khenglawt | Machine Translation: English <-> Mizo | Jt. Supervisor | 2020 – now | Mizoram University |
| 2 | Mr. Morrel V.L Nunsanga | Analysis of POS tagging for Mizo Language | Jt. Supervisor | 2018- now | Mizoram University |
| 3 | Ms. Sunita Warji | POS tagging for Khasi Language | Jt. Supervisor | 2017 – 2022 (Completed) | North-Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya |
| 4 | Mr. Amarnath Pathak | Addressing the Challenges in Mathematical Information Retrieval from Scientific Documents | Co-Supervisor | 2017- 2021 (Completed) | NIT Mizoram |
| 5 | Mr. Goutam Majumder | Deep Interpretable Semantic Textual Similarity (DeepiSTS) | Co-Supervisor | Sept, 2017- Sept, 2021(Completed) | NIT Mizoram |
| 6 | Mr. Sandeep Kumar Dash | Spatial Information Extraction from Text Using Image | Co-Supervisor | Sept, 2015- Jun, 2021(Completed) | NIT Mizoram |
| 7 | Ms. Ranjita Das | Development of Some Clustering Techniques using Swarm and Evolutionary Computations | Co-Supervisor | 2018 (Completed) | NIT Mizoram |
Research Intern
- Sandip Sarkar, PhD Candidate (1st Semester) at Jadavpur University, June 03, 2017-June 10, 2017, Anticipated Departure
- V Lalramzauva, BTech 6th Semester, University of Technology and Management Shillong, Meghalaya, June 03, 2017-July 21, 2017, Successfully Completed
Looking for PhD Student in the Domain of Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing like Healthcare domain ChatBot, Text Summarization, Music Generation, Machine Translation, Fake News Detection, Cooking Recipe Identification etc.
MTech (PG) Thesis Guided:
- Shayak Chakraborty (He/ Him), “Abstractive Text Summarization and Sematic Summary Evaluation“, July, 2022 – Now (Ongoing),
- Tawmo (She/Her), “Text Summarization Evaluation“, July, 2021 – June, 2022(Completed), International Student
- Gebreerufael Wondie (He/Him), “Amharic <->English: Neural Machine Translation“, July, 2020 – May, 2021 (Completed), International Student
- Vikrant Rajput (He/him), M.Tech Thesis Title “Multi-Input Neural Abstractive Text Summarization with Multi-Objective“, July, 2019 – June, 2020 (Completed)
BTech (UG) Thesis Guided:
- Rajdeep Paul, Samudranil Dutta, Battula Veeranjaneyulu Chowdary, “Multilingual News Article Similarity”, Aug, 2022 – Now (Ongoing).
- Rishu Kumar Darsh, Kumar Kaushik, Joya Chakroborty, “Deep Text Summarization and Semantic Evaluation”, Aug, 2022 – Now (Ongoing).
- Tushar Skachan, Neha kumari, Nihar Jyoti Basisth, “Quantum Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing Applications”, Aug, 2022 – Now (Ongoing).
- Prateek Mishra, Devi Prasad Upadhyay, KVN Pranav, Sri Harsha Medisetti, Nirmita Biswas, “Medicbot: A Healthcare Conversational AI”, 2021-2022 (Completed) – funded by ARTPARK, IISc Bangalore
- Abdullah Khilji, Utkarsh Singh, Pintu Singh, Adnan Ali: Title: “Multimodal based Abstractive Summarization” (2020-2021) (Completed)
- Abinash Dutta and Manish Kumar, Puja Jain and Sharath Chandra Punna, Title: “DeNImaC: Deep Neural Image Captioning” (July, 2019- June, 2020) (Completed)
- Mr. Nayan Jyoti Bayan, Mr. Sandeep Sarmah, Mr. Prantik Sarmah, Mr. Samannay Mahanta. BTech Thesis Entitled: “Machine Translation from Assamese to English based on Statistical and Neural Networks“, BTech (CSE) 7th Semester at NIT Silchar (2018 – 2019). (Completed)
- Mr. Jereemi Benthem, BTech Thesis Entitled: “Machine Translation from English to Mizo Language“, BTech (CSE) at NIT Mizoram, 2017. [Research papers during UG: 04 (including Springer, IEEE with impact factor journal)]. (Completed)
- Mr. Divyanshu Bhardwaj, BTech Thesis Entitled: “An Approach to Information Retrieval from Scientific Documents”, BTech (CSE) at NIT Mizoram, 2017. Research papers during UG: 03 (including Springer, IEEE). (Completed)
- Mr. Bikram Das, BTech Thesis Entitled: “Natural Language to Virtual Actions”, BTech (CSE) at NIT Mizoram, 2016. (Completed)
- Mr. Prashant Ranjan, BTech Thesis Entitled: “Textual Entailment using Lexical and Syntactic Similarity”, BTech (CSE) at NIT Mizoram, 2016. (Completed)
- Mr. Priyanshu Kumar, BTech Thesis Entitled: “Textual Entailment using Semantic Similarity”, BTech (CSE) at NIT Mizoram, 2016. (Completed)
BTech (UG) Others:
- Jyotisman Borah, BTech 5th Semester – CSE, Aug 2020 -, Healthcare ChatBot Application/ Sentiment Analysis
- Swagat Shubham Bhuyan, BTech 5th Semester – CSE, Aug 2020 -, Chat Topic Extraction/ Sentiment Analysis
- Saranga K. Mahanta, BTech 5th Semester – ECE, Aug 2020 -, Chat Topic Extraction/ Musical Instrumentation Identification. Sentiment Analysis
- Abdullah Khilji, BTech 7th Semester, Nov 2019 – 2021, TeamHealthcareAI – Automated ChatBot System, Machine Translation, Recipe QA.
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Subject Teaching/ Taught:
| Sl No | Subject Name | Semester | Duration | Status |
| 1 | Artificial Intelligence | 7th Semester (BTech) | Odd Semester, 2018 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 2 | Natural Language Processing (CS1436) | 7th Semester (BTech),1st Semester (MTech),1st Semester (PhD coursework) | Odd Semester, 2018 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 3 | Database Management System (CS1307) | 6th Semester (BTech) | Even Semester, 2019 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 4 | Software Engineering (CS1308) | 6th Semester (BTech) | Even Semester, 2019 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 5 | Introduction to Programming (CS101) | 1st Semester (BTech) | Odd Semester, 2019 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 6 | Software Engineering (CS 1308) | 6th Semester (BTech), Section: A & B, Credit: 8, Online Class | Even Semester, 2020 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 7 | Artificial Intelligence (CSL 1701) | 6th Semester (CSE), PhD Course Work, Credit: 6, Online Class | Even Semester, 2020 | Completed, NIT Mizoram |
| 8 | Introduction to Programming (CS 101) | Backlog Students – Summer Term, Online Class | Summer Semester (June-July, 2020) | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 9 | Natural Language Processing (CS 1436) (EL II) | BTech (7th Semester), Credit: 6, Online Class | Odd Semester, 2020 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 10 | Software Engineering (CS 304) | BTech (Fifth Semester), Credit: 4, Online Class | Odd Semester, 2020 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 11 | Natural Language Processing (CS5140) | MTech & Ph.D. Coursework, Credit: 6, Online Class | Odd Semester, 2020 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 12 | Artificial Intelligence (CS-1509) | MTech (Second Semester), Credit: 3 (3-0-0), Online Class | Even Semester, 2021 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 13 | Natural Language Processing (CS332) | BTech (Six Semester), Credit: 4 (3-1-0), Online Class | Even Semester, 2021 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 14 | Natural Language Processing Lab (CS332) | BTech (Six Semester), Credit: 2 (0-0-3), Online Class | Even Semester, 2021 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 15 | Artificial Intelligence (CS401) | BTech (Seven Semester), Credit: 4 (3-1-0), Online Class | Odd Semester, 2021 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 16 | Artificial Intelligence (CS5202) | MTech in AI (First Semester), Credit: 3 (3-0-0), Online Class | Odd Semester, 2021 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 17 | Machine Translation (CS 485) | BTech in CSE Open Elective- III (8th Semester), Online Class (up to Mid Sem), Physical Class – 23.03.2022 (G312) | Even Semester, 2022 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 18 | Artificial Intelligence (CS-1509) | MTech (CSE, Second Semester), Credit: 3 (3-0-0), Online Class – up to 25.03.2022, Physical Class – 28.03.2022 (CS 2203), | Even Semester, 2022 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 19 | Artificial Intelligence (CS401) | BTech (Seven Semester), Credit: 4 (3-1-0) | Odd Semester, 2022 | Completed, NIT Silchar |
| 20 | Artificial Intelligence (CS 5109 ) | MTech (CSE, 2nd Semester), Credit: 3 (3-0-0-3) | Even Semester, 2023 | Ongoing |
| 21 | Machine Translation (CS 5252) | MTech (AI, 2nd Semester), Credit: 3 (3-0-0-3) | Even Semester, 2023 | Ongoing |
| 22 | Machine Translation (CS485) | BTech Open Elective-III (CSE, 8th Semester), Credit: 3 (3-0-0-3) | Even Semester, 2023 | Ongoing |
Professional Skills
- Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Artificial intelligence
- Application Areas: Textual Entailment, Answer Validation, Information Retrieval, Question Answering
- Programming Tools: Java, C, C++, Perl, php
Participation of Evaluation Track
- Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge (RTE-5) at TAC 2009
- Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge (RTE-6) at TAC 2010
- Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge (RTE-7) at TAC 2011
- Recognizing Inference in TExt (RITE)@NTCIR-9 2011
- Recognizing Inference in TExt (RITE-2)@NTCIR-10 2013
- Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) 2009 in AdHoc Task
- Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) 2011 in SMS-Based FAQ Retrieval
- Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) 2012 in SMS-Based FAQ Retrieval
- Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) 2013 in FAQ retrieval using Noisy Queries
- Question Generation Task 2010
- Question Generation Task 2011
- RespubliQA@Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF) 2010
- QA4MRE@Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF) 2011
- QA4MRE@Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF) 2012
- QA4MRE@Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF) 2013
- Shared Task on Transliterated Search, FIRE 2013
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Question Answering System: The best results at 2011 (system jucs1106enen), 2012 (system jucs12013enen), and 2013 (system jucs1302enen) international competitions QA4MRE (Question Answering for Machine Reading Evaluation) at Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) out of 25, 21, and 19 participating systems, respectively.
