Winter School on Natural Language Processing Hosted by Dhirubhai Ambani Inst. of Information & Communication Technology
(for Women Only)
Dates: 4 to 15 January 2021
Course coordinators:
- Academic: Prasenjit Majumder [email protected]
Description of school:
The proposed school aims to create awareness among the undergraduate 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:
- Foundation for NLP
- Maths for NLP
- Word embedding
- Python for NLP
- NLP tools
- Morphology
- Part-of-speech tagging
- Language modelling
- Application
- Machine translation
- Information extraction
- Information retrieval
- Text summarization
- Social media analysis
Proposed list of speakers:
- Prof. Suman Kumar Mitra, DAIICT
- Prof. Prasenjit Majumder, DAIICT
- Prof. Mandar Mitra, ISI Kolkata
- Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IITB
- Prof. Sriparna Saha, IIT Patna
- Prof. Tathagata Bandyopadhyay, IIMA
- Prof. Tanmoy Chakraborty, IIIT Delhi
- Dr. Parth Mehta, DAIICT
Background/prior courses recommended:
- Basics of Probability and Statistics
- Linear Algebra
- Python
- Data Structure and Algorithm