Natural Language Processing

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Principal Coordinator :

Dr. J P Singh, NIT Patna

Co-Principal Coordinator :

Dr. G. Pradhan, NIT Patna
Dr. Raksha Sharma, IIT Roorkee
Dr. Amey Karkare, IIT Kanpur
Prof. Atul Gupta, IIITDM Jabalpur
Dr. Namita Mittal, MNIT Jaipur

Course Fee Details:

Academic (student/faculty): 500 INR

Industry People/ Others: 1000 INR

Foreign Participants: 4000 INR

Payment Details:

Bank Name: Allahabad Bank (Merge to Indian Bank)

Account Name: NIT Patna

Account No.: 50380476798

IFSC Code: IDIB000B810

Resource Persons:

EXPERTS/SPEAKERS - Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Bombay (ii) Dr. Asif Ekbal, IITP (iii) Dr. Sriparna Saha, IITP; (iv) Dr. Atul Gupta, IIITDMJ (v) Dr. J. P. Singh, NITP (vi) Dr.Namita Mittal, MNITJ,

Course contents:

MODULES TOPICS :

Intro and Text Classification
- Processing Text using Perl
- Use of Regular Expressions
- Elements of Morphology
- Character N-gram Based Text Mining
- Text Classification
Language Modeling and Sequence Tagging
- Texts as sequences of words
- Language modeling and use for search suggestions, machine translation, chat-bots, etc.
- Predicting a sequence of tags for a sequence of words
- Part-of-speech tags, named entities, or other tags
- Probabilistic Modeling
- N-grams Model
- HMM Model
- Sum-product Algorithms

Vector Space Models of Semantics
- higher abstraction for texts: vectors representing meanings traditional models of distributional semantics, traditional models of distributional semantics
- Cover modern tools for word and sentence embeddings ,such as word2vec, FastText, StarSpace
Syntactic Processing
- Phrase Structure and Natural Language Syntax
- Chart Parsing and CYK Algorithm
- Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars
Sequence-to-Sequence Tasks
- Machine translation
- Summarization
- Question answering
- General encoder-decoder-attention architecture

Dialog Systems
- Task-oriented dialog systems like Apple Siri or Amazon Alexa
- Main building blocks of such systems namely Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Dialog Manager (DM)
Unification-based NLP and Semantics
- First-order Predicate Logic and Resolution
- Classical and Feature-structure Unification
- Unification-based Grammars

Core Team Members, E&ICT Academy, NIT Patna:

Dr. Bharat Gupta (CI E & ICT Academy, NIT Patna)

Email: bharat@nitp.ac.in

Dr. M.P Singh (CO-CI E & ICT Academy, NIT Patna)

Email: mps@nitp.ac.in

Website: http://old.nitp.ac.in/ict/index.php

Electronics and ICT Academy

National Institute of Technology, Patna

AshokRajpath, Patna 800005

Email: eictapatna@nitp.ac.in

Website: http://old.nitp.ac.in/ict