Summer School on Natural Language Processing Hosted by Dhirubhai Ambani Inst. of Information & Communication Technology
Sponsored by Amex AI Labs
Dates: 6 to 17 July 2020
Course coordinators:
- Academic: Prasenjit Majumder [email protected]
- Local (from host institute): Maniklal Das [email protected]
Description of school:
The proposed school (for Women only) aims to create awareness among the under-graduate and postgraduate students in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The school will focus on foundational knowledge in natural language processing, the current state-of the-art research challenges and opportunities and future trends. A salient aspect of this school is to emphasize hands-on sessions with suitable case studies.
List of subtopics:
- Course introduction
- Text representation
- Language model
- Morphology
- Part-of-speech tagging
- Entity identification
- Text parsing (shallow and deep)
- Dialog system
- Machine translation
- Text summarization
- Sentiment analysis
Partial list of speakers:
- Prasenjit Majumder, DA-IICT
- Mandar Mitra, ISI Kolkata
- Suman Mitra, DA-IICT
- Sriparna Saha, IIT Patna
- L. V. Subhramanium, IBM Research Lab India
- Sudip Naskar, Jadavpur University
- Lipika Dey, TCS Research
Background/prerequisite for this Women Only school (preferred but not mandatory):
- Basics of Probability and Statistics
- Linear Algebra
- Python
- Data Structure and Algorithm