AMaL Lab

A-pplied Ma-chine L-earning (AMaL) Lab

The Applied Machine Learning (AMaL) lab, guided by Prof. Ashish Anand, is an apllication oriented lab in Natural Language Processing, comprising a diverse team including Post-doctoral fellows, Ph.D. scholars, adept M.Tech & B.Tech students, and enthusiastic interns. The lab excels in Biomedical Text Mining, Multilingual Named Entity Recognition, Relation Extraction, and Event Extraction. The lab also explores Data Programming & Weak Supervision techniques and delves into Argument Mining, collectively driving advancements at the intersection of language and technology.

Biomedical text mining (including biomedical natural language processing or BioNLP) refers to the methods and study of how text mining may be applied to texts and literature of the biomedical and molecular biology domains. As a field of research, biomedical text mining incorporates ideas from natural language processing, bioinformatics, medical informatics and computational linguistics. The strategies developed through studies in this field are frequently applied to the biomedical and molecular biology literature available through services such as PubMed.

Multilingual Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a computational linguistic task involving the development of models and algorithms that can identify and classify entities such as names of people, places, organizations, and more, across multiple languages. By using techniques like deep learning, transfer learning, and cross-lingual embeddings, Multilingual NER aims to create models that are capable of recognizing entities in different languages, enabling information extraction, cross-lingual knowledge linking, and language-agnostic information retrieval in diverse text sources and applications, ranging from information retrieval to machine translation and cross-lingual information synthesis.

Relation Extraction is a natural language processing task focused on identifying and categorizing the connections or associations between entities mentioned in text. Employing methods such as pattern-based approaches, dependency parsing, and neural networks, Relation Extraction seeks to automatically recognize and classify various types of relationships, such as "is-a," "works-for," or "located-in," within textual data. This technique is pivotal for knowledge graph construction, information retrieval, and understanding complex interactions in fields like biomedicine, social networks, and financial analysis.

Event Extraction is an advanced natural language processing task that involves detecting and structuring complex events or occurrences mentioned within text. Utilizing techniques like syntactic parsing, semantic role labeling, and deep learning models, Event Extraction aims to identify event triggers, participants, time frames, and relationships, facilitating the transformation of unstructured textual data into structured event representations. This process is crucial for generating event databases, tracking developments in news articles, analyzing social media content, and enhancing the understanding of dynamic processes in various domains like journalism, security analysis, and scientific research.

Data Programming and Weak Supervision are innovative approaches in natural language processing that address the challenge of obtaining labeled training data for models when traditional methods are time-consuming or expensive. Data Programming involves creating labeling functions that automatically generate noisy labels from various sources, like heuristics, rules, or distant supervision. Weak Supervision combines multiple noisy or incomplete sources of supervision to create a more accurate training signal. These techniques enable the training of models with larger and more diverse datasets, enhancing performance in applications such as text classification, image recognition, and entity linking.

Argument mining is the automatic identification and extraction of the structure of inference and reasoning expressed as arguments presented in natural language. It aims to extract claims, evidence, premises, and other elements of reasoning from textual sources. Understanding argumentative structure makes it possible to determine not only what positions people are adopting, but also why they hold the opinions they do, providing valuable insights in domains as diverse as debate analysis, discourse analysis, financial market prediction, and public relations etc.

Current Members

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Chaitanya Kirti
(2019 - Current)
CLST
Research Area

Automatic event extraction from short stories

Supervisors

Dr. Prithwijit Guha and Dr. Ashish Anand.

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Prachuryya Kaushik
(2020 - Current)
CSE
Research Area

Multilingual Named-Entity-Recognition

Supervisor

Dr. Ashish Anand

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Soumya Bharadwaj
(2020 - Current)
CSE
Research Area

Relation Extraction and Natural Language Generation

Supervisor

Dr. Ashish Anand

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Ajanta Maurya
(2021 - Current)
CSE
Research Area

Data Programming and Weak Supervison

Supervisors

Dr. Ashish Anand and Dr. V. Vijaya Saradhi

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Nilmadhab Das
(2021 - Current)
CSE
Research Area

Argumentative Structure Mining with a Generative Framework

Supervisors

Dr. Ashish Anand and Dr. V. Vijaya Saradhi

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Debarti Bhattacharyya
(2022 - Current)
CSE
Research Area

Argument Evaluation with Argumentation Framework

Supervisor

Dr. Ashish Anand

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Vatsal Gulabbhai Vasoya
Tenure: (2022 - 2024)
CSE

Area of Work
Biomedical Entity Linking

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Yashvi Bipinbhai Rajvir
Tenure: (2022 - 2024)
CSE

Area of Work
Biomedical named entity recognition

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Bajirao Ramling Salunke
Tenure: (2022 - 2024)
CSE

Area of Work
Event extraction from short stories

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Kajal
Tenure: (2022 - 2024)
CSE

Area of Work
Biomedical Argument Mining

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Aditya Rajesh Patil
Tenure: (2018 - Current)
CSE

Area of Work: NLP

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Shivansh Mishra
Tenure: (2018 - Current)
CSE

Area of Work: NLP

Our Beloved Alumni

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Madhusudan Paul
Part-Time: (2010 - 2020)
CSE
Research Area

Complex Networks Theory and Computational Systems Biology

Supervisor

Dr. Ashish Anand

Current Affiliation

Assistant Professor at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India

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Sunil Kumar Sahu
(2013 - 2017)
CSE
Research Area

Information Extraction, Knowledge Base Question Answering, Machine Translation

Supervisor

Dr. Ashish Anand

Current Affiliation

Senior Applied Scientist at Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE

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Saptarshi Pyne
(2014 - 2020)
CSE
Research Area

Disease Progression Modeling, Bioinformatics

Supervisor

Dr. Ashish Anand

Current Affiliation

Assistant Professor at IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

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Abhishek
(2014 - 2020)
CSE
Research Area

Fine-grained entity typing

Supervisors

Dr. Ashish Anand and Dr. Amit Awekar

Current Affiliation

Consultant II - Analytics And Data Science at Eli Lilly and Company

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Aparajita Dutta
(2015 - 2021)
CSE
Research Area

Decoding alternative splicing code in genome sequence using interpretable machine learning models.

Supervisor

Dr. Ashish Anand

Current Affiliation

Assistant Professor at IIIT Guwahati, Assam, India

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Akshay Parekh
(2016 - 2023)
CSE
Research Area

Information Extraction & Deep Learning, Large-scale Relation Extraction

Supervisors

Dr. Ashish Anand and Dr. Amit Awekar

Current Affiliation

NLP Research Consultant - Advanced Analytics and Data Science at Eli Lilly and Company

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Akanksha Mishra
(2016 - 2023)
CSE
Research Area

Understanding biases in images and related questions in Visual Question Answering datasets

Supervisors

Dr. Prithwijit Guha and Dr. Ashish Anand.

Current Affiliation

Research Scientist at Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore, India

Animesh Ranjan

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2021

Asutosh Padhi

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2021

Sonu Singh

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2021

Vajja Sai Kiran

M Tech, Data Science, Completed in 2021

Krishnavardhan Padhye

M Tech, Data Science, Completed in 2021

Manan Gupta

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2021

Mayank Barnawal

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2021

Sayak Dutta

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2021

Shivang Dalal

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2021

Susrita Saha

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2020

Sayantan Basu

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2020

Abhinav Hinger

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2020

Apurva Saraogi

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2020

Rishabh Jain

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2020

Shaurya Gomber

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2020

Vatsal Goel

B Tech, EEE, Completed in 2020

Co-supervisor: Dr. Prithwijit Guha, EEE

Mohit Chandak

B Tech, EEE, Completed in 2020

Co-supervisor: Dr. Prithwijit Guha, EEE

Hema

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2019

Subha Banerjee

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2019

Tanmoy Mondal

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2019

Rohan Aggarwal

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2019

Sudhanshu Ranjan

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2019

Sarthak Tripathi

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2019

Shivam Gupta

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2019

Vishal

B Tech, EEE, Completed in 2019

Co-supervisor: Dr. Tony Jacob, EEE

Jayant Reddy

B Tech, EEE, Completed in 2019

Co-supervisor: Dr. Tony Jacob, EEE

Abhinav

B Tech, Mathematics and Computing, Completed in 2019

Co-supervisor: Dr. Gautam Das, Mathematics

Ojasvin

B Tech, Mathematics and Computing, Completed in 2019

Co-supervisor: Dr. Gautam Das

Sunil Kumar Sahu

Ph D, CSE, Completed in 2018

Rahul Sharma

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2018

Akanksha

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2018

Rahul Sharma

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2018

Mangirish Kankare

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2018

Anish Monsy

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2018

Sagar Manchanda

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2018

Saurabh Batra

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2018

Aman Dalmia

B Tech, EEE, Completed in 2018

Manoj Guhan

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2018

Yash Vanjani

B Tech, Mathematics and Computing, Completed in 2018

Athul R

B Tech, EEE, Completed in 2018

Alok

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2017

Rahul

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2017

Sahil Manchanda

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2017

Rishi Agrawal

M Tech (Joint Guidance with Dr Shirisha Nagotu), BSBE , Completed in 2017

Anirudh Agnihotry

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2017

Aneesh Dash

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2017

Desh Raj

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2017

Kushal Chawla

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2017

Rijil

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2016

Salama

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2016

Abhishek Sen

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2016

Shubhakar Reddy

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2016

Shubhojeet

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2016

Animesh Karmakar

B Tech (Worked with Amit Sethi), CSE, Completed in 2016

Anupam Agrawal

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2015

Current Occupation: NetApp

Lat Sahab

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2015

Current Occupation: NetApp

Muneeb

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2015

Current Occupation: Entrepreneurship

Netsanet

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2015

 

Amit Mittal

B Tech, Maths, Completed in 2015

Current Occupation: Microsoft SDC

Arihant Sethia

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2015

Current Occupation: Amazon

Bangaru

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2015

Current Occupation: inmobi

Hitesh Arora

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2015

Current Occupation: Microsoft SDC

Vishal Anand

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2015

Current Occupation: Visa

Chetti Prasad

M Tech, Completed in 2014

 

Thang Kan Lun

M Tech, Completed in 2014

 

Anurag Prateek

B Tech, Maths, Completed in 2014

Co-supervisor: Dr. Arabin Kumar Dey

Achal Sah

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2014

Current Occupation: Amazon

Jitendra Solanki

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2014

Current Occupation: Cognizant

Rohit Singla

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2014

Current Occupation: Samsung R&D

Sudhanshu Mittal

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2014

Current Occupation: Oracle

Gargi Priyadarshini

M Tech, CSE, Completed in 2013

Current Occupation: Dell Research Lab, Bangalore

Bharat Khatri

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2013

Current Occupation: media.net

Pranav Gupta

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2013

Current Occupation: Microsoft, Ireland

Rajat Khanduja

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2013

Current Occupation: media.net

Shashank Shekhar

B Tech, BSBE, Completed in 2013

Current Occupation: Lumiata

Shubham Tripathi

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2013

Current Occupation: Microsoft SDC

Anurag Purwar

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2012

 

Rishav Anand

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2012

Current Occupation: Google, California

Siddhartha Puligila

B Tech, CSE, Completed in 2011

Co-supervisor: Prof. Purandar Bhaduri

R Shankararama Sharma

Summer Intern, 2015 (Under Joint Sc. Academies' Summer Research Fellowship Prog.)

Affiliation: R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore

Suryansh Raj

Summer Intern, 2015

Affiliation: Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal

Apratim Bhattacharyya

Summer Intern, 2014

Affiliation: NIT Warangal

Ringki Das

Summer Intern, 2014

Affiliation: Tezpur University

Shalmali Choudhury

Summer Intern, 2014

Affiliation: Tezpur University

Nehal Amin

Summer Intern, 2013

Affiliation: IIT Kharagpur

Pranav Goswami

Summer Intern, 2013

Affiliation: MANIT Bhopal

Bhawna Kumari

Summer Intern, 2012

Affiliation: NIT Patna

Chanchal

Summer Intern, 2011

Affiliation: NIT Rourkela