Natural  Language  processing  (NLP)  is  one  of  the  most  IIT  Patna  is  an  institute  of  National  importance  by  an  Act   
important  technologies  in  today’s  world.  It  is  a  field  of  of  the  Indian  Parliament  in  2008.  It  is  ranked  108  among  There  is  a  limited  availability  of  accommodation  in 
Computer  Science  and  encompasses  Artificial  Intelligence,  BRICS  nations  by  the  QS  World  University  Rankings  of  IIT  Patna  hostels  for  student  participants  at  an 
Linguistics,  Cognition,  Physics,  Mathematics  etc.  2018.  It  is  ranked  23  among  engineering  colleges  in  India  affordable  rate,  which  will  be  offered  on  a  first 
Natural-language  understanding  is sometimes referred to as  by the NIRF 2019.  come-first  served  basis.  Besides  there  are  several 
an  artificial  intelligence-complete  problem,  because  hotels  and  guest-houses  around  IIT  Patna  where  the 
natural-language  recognition  seems  to  require  extensive  The  Artificial  Intelligence-Natural  Language  participants may stay during the course. 
knowledge  about  the  outside  world  and  the  ability  to  Processing-Machine  Learning  (AI-NLP-ML)  Group   
manipulate  it. Applications of NLP are everywhere because  (​http://www.iitp.ac.in/~ai-nlp-ml/​)  at  ​Department  of 
people  communicate  almost  everything  in  language:  web  Computer  Science  and  Engineering​,  ​IIT  Patna  has  started 
search,  advertising,  emails,  customer  service,  language  its  official  journey  in  June,  2015. The group is dedicated to   
translation, virtual agents, medical reports, etc.   explore  the  frontiers  of  Artificial  Intelligence,  Machine  IIT  Patna's  campus  is  located  at  Bihta,  35  km  from 
This  course  will  cover  various  fundamental  concepts  of  Learning  and  Natural  Language  Processing.  There  are  Patna  and  20  km  from  Ara,  at  a  501  acres  site.  The 
NLP,  recent  research  directions  and  hads-on  on  various  around  45  members  including  Research  scholars,  Research  nearest  railway  station  is  Bihta,  2  km  from  the 
machine  learning  and  deep  learning  approaches  to  NLP.  engineers,  Lexicographers,  B.Tech  &  M.Tech  students.  campus.  IIT  Patna  has  good  road  connectivity  to  and 
Following topics in NLP will be discussed in details:  Several  R&D  projects  duly  sponsored  by  Industries  and  from  Patna  and  Ara.  Regular  bus  services  have  been 
N-gram  models,  Word  sense  disambiguation,  Parsing,  Govt. agencies are currently being undertaken.  provided  by  the  Govt.  of  Bihar  from  Gandhi  Maidan, 
Part-of-speech  tagging,  Sentiment  Analysis,  Machine  Patna  to  IIT  Patna  campus.  The  nearest  airport  to 
 
Translation,  Question  Answering,  Natural  Language  reach  IIT  Patna  campus  is  Jai  Prakash  Narayan 
 
Understanding, Natural Language Generation etc.   

The  course  will  also cover a number of standard algorithms 

The  Participation  fees  for  attending  the  workshop  is 
that  are used throughout language processing. Modern NLP  Domestic  Airport,  Patna,  which  is  located  5  km 
as follows:  
algorithms  are  grounded  in  machine  learning.  In  recent  southwest of Patna. 
years,  Deep  Learning  approaches  have  been  showing  very  Industry: ​ Rs. 60,000   
impressive  performance  across  many  different  NLP  tasks,  Academic Institutions: ​Rs. 30,000   
using  single  end-to-end  neural  models  that  do  not  require  Research Organization: ​Rs. 30,000 
traditional, task-specific feature engineering.   Student/Research Scholar: ​Rs. 7,500 
Date  Session Schedule 
Introduction to NLP, PoS tagging, Basics of
In  this  course,  participants  will  gain  a  thorough  The  above  fee  includes  all  instructional  materials,  Machine learning, Neural Network and Deep
10/01/2020 
introduction  to  cutting-edge  research  in  NLP.  Through  tutorials,  Internet  and  laboratory  facilities  during  learning
lectures,  tutorials,  assignments  and  laboratories,  class hours.  
participants  will  learn  the  necessary  skills  to  desig​n,    NER, Coreference Resolution,
implement,  and  understand  their  own  machine  learning   
11/01/2020  HMM
models for solving a NLP problem.   
  Lab - POS and NER
 
12/01/2020  Sunday- Break
Parsing (Syntactic, Statistical and Neural),
13/01/2020  Word Representation (Monolingual,
   
Bi-lingual and Cross-lingual)
Scanned  copy  of  the  filled  in registration form should  The  participation  fees  for  the  CEP  will  be  accepted 
Semantic Analysis and Word Sense be  sent  to  ​[email protected]  and 
Disambiguation, RNN and CNN
only  through  DD  drawn  in  favour  of  Indian  Institute 
14/01/2020  [email protected]  with  a  copy  to  of  Technology  Patna”  or  e  -transfer  /  RTGS/  NEFT. 
Lab - POS and NER [email protected] by January 07, 2020.  Details for RTGS/NEFT or e -transfer:  
   
Language Modelling, Text Classification,
15/01/2020  Neural Language Modelling Bank: State Bank of India,  
Lab - Text Classification Branch: IIT Patna, Bihta  
  Bank Account No. : 30957551934  
Sentiment and Emotion Analysis, MICR Code : 801002005  
Multi-modal Analysis 1. Name: ___________________________________ 
16/01/2020  Beneficiary:  Indian  Institute  of  Technology  Patna 
Lab - Sentiment/Emotion 2. Date of Birth (dd/mm/yyyy): ______________  IFSC: SBIN0017164 Account Type : Savings A/c 
Machine Translation (SMT, NMT),  
3. Sex (M/F): _______________________________ 
17/01/2020  Encoder-Decoder, Attention
Lab - SMT 4. Designation: _____________________________ 
Text Mining, Summarization, Transformer 5. Organization: ____________________________ 
18/01/2020   
Lab - NMT  
6. Address for correspondence: 
19/01/2020  Sunday-Break Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya 
_________________________________________ Dr. Asif Ekbal 
Information Extraction (Event and Relation
Extraction), Advanced Word Representation ________________________________________  Dr. Sriparna Saha 
20/01/2020  (BERT, ELMO)
7. Email: ___________________________________ 
Lab - Event Extraction
8. Phone/Mobile: ___________________________ 
Question Answering, Machine Reading
21/01/2020  Comprehension
9. Highest Academic Qualification:____________ 
Lab - QA
10. Specialization:____________________________ 
Natural language Understanding, Dialog
22/01/2020  Management and Reinforcement Learning 11. Details  of  fee  payment  (Reference  no.,  date  of 
Lab - NLU payment, amount etc.): ____________________ 
Natural Language Generation Sequence to 12. Date: ______________ Place:________________ 
23/01/2020  Sequence Model, Pointer Generator
Lab - NLG 13. Signature: 
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