Updates / Other Stuff
Aug 2011
- As part of the series of talks organized by the ISTE chapter at NIT Calicut, I am repeating my webinar from March on "Demystifying the American Graduate Admissions Process" at NITC on Sunday, 21st August 2011. This time around, the audience purely comprises of first year students and hence the focus is on increasing their awareness regarding the US admissions process and the things they need to keep in mind during their undergraduate studies.
Jun 2011
- A new and improved version of the Stanford Deterministic Coreference Resolution System is now available for download as part of the latest update to Stanford CoreNLP (v1.1.0).
May 2011
- A beta public release of the Stanford Phrasal open source machine translation package is now available.
Mar 2011
- I am giving a webinar on "Demystifying the American Graduate Admissions Process" at NIT Calicut on Thursday, 31st March 2011. More details here [PDF].
Jan 2011
Current students and alumni of NITC who are interested in pursuing graduate studies in the US should consider joining the Facebook group "NITC -> MS/PhD". It is a group run by NITC alumni in the US for providing guidance to aspirants from NITC on a variety of topics related to American graduate studies and admissions. For those more inclined in taking the MBA route, join the "NITC -> MBA" group that is managed by my fellow alumni friends.
Nov 2010
- Our work on "Improving Vision through Dialog" got accepted for inclusion in the proceedings of the AAAI 2010 Fall Symposium on "Dialog with Robots". The paper was presented at the symposium held at Arlington, Virginia in the second week of November.
Oct 2010
- Our coreference resolution system is now available for download as part of the larger Stanford CoreNLP package.
- Our recent work on coreference resolution got accepted for inclusion in the proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Out of a total 500 submissions, there were 125 accepted papers (25%), from which 70 (14%) were chosen to be presented orally (including ours) and 55 (11%) as posters. I presented our paper at the conference held at MIT, Massachusetts in the second week of October.
Aug 2010
- Earlier this year, I was fortunate enough to be a part of the 2010 Masters Admissions committee at Stanford Computer Science. It was a great opportunity to get an inside view of the admissions process at a top graduate school. I at last finished penning down my experience about the same in a document titled "Demystifiying the American Graduate Admissions Process". More details here.
Jul 2010
I joined the Natural Language Group (NLG) of Microsoft Office as a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft Corporation, Redmond. The NLG
works on natural language tools like the orthographic spellchecker, context-sensitive spellchecker, grammar checker, etc. for the different MS Office products.
Jun 2010
- After a year and a half at The Farm, I graduated with a Master of a Science in Computer Science (specializing in Artificial Intelligence), with a Distinction in Research in Natural Language Processing. I was one among the eight students (in a graduating batch of 147), who were awarded Distinction in Research by the Computer Science Department.
- Coming soon for download as part of JavaNLP: Stanford's phrase-based machine translation system, Phrasal
Apr 2010
Stefan Krawczyk and I presented our work on SMS Text Normalization in the PhD poster session of the Computer Forum Affiliates Annual Meeting on Wednesday, Apr 28, 2010. We also demoed an online interface to our tool.
As part of Stanford's annual Splash! program, I taught an introductory class on natural language processing to school kids, titled "Teaching Languages to Machines" on Saturday, Apr 17, 2010. The lecture slides from the class are available here.
March 2010
- The final posters from a really cool course (EDUC 396X: The Design of Technologies for Casual Learning) that I took in Winter 2010 are available here.
Sept 2009
- At the start of Fall 2009, I was made the customer support admin for all the software distributed by the Stanford NLP Group. These are handy statistical NLP toolkits for various computational linguistics problems and I would definitely recommend anyone working on NLP-based projects to take a look at them. The tools include a parser, a part-of-speech tagger, a named-entity recognizer and a maximum entropy classifier among others (see full list).
June 2009
- Students in CS224N always come up with a lot of exciting class projects, but Twitter Sentiment and Stanford SMS Translator are my favorite ones from this year. The full list of projects is here.
- The course on Natural Language Processing (CS224N), taught by Chris Manning is a popular AI class at Stanford. Lectures and course materials from last year's class (2008 session) are available on Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE).
