Erik Cambria is the Founder of SenticNet, a Singapore-based company The primary objectives of the course are as follows: Global

ows: Global Initiative of Academic

offering B2B sentiment analysis services, and a Professor at Nanyang ●​ Exposing participants to the fundamentals of Data, AI,
Technological University, where he also holds the appointment of Provost
Chair in Computer Science and Engineering. His research focuses on
and NLP
●​ Providing a description of the main applications of
Network (GIAN) Workshop
neuro-symbolic AI for explainable natural language processing in domains Information Retrieval and Extraction
like sentiment analysis, dialogue systems, and financial forecasting. He is
recipient of several awards, e.g., IEEE Outstanding Career Award, was
●​ Describing the main methods and techniques used in
development of such applications,
on
listed among the AI's 10 to Watch, and was featured in Forbes as one of
the 5 People Building Our AI Future. He is an IEEE Fellow, Associate Editor ●​ Communicating to the participants advanced
of many top-tier AI journals, e.g., Information Fusion and IEEE techniques used in AI and NLP applications. AI for Data Representation, Analytics, and
Transactions on Affective Computing, and is involved in various
international conferences as keynote speaker, program chair and senior Visualization
program committee member.
(Hybrid mode)
March 3, 2025 –March 7, 2025 (5 days)
The Artificial Intelligence-Natural Language Processing-Machine Learning
Asif Ekbal is currently a Professor of AI and Data Science, IIT Jodhpur (on (AI-NLP-ML) Group (http://www.iitp.ac.in/~ai-nlp-ml/) at Department of
lien from IIT Patna). His research interests are in the broad areas of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Patna has started its official Organized by
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. journey in June, 2015. The group is dedicated to exploring the frontiers of
Currently, his research focuses on Information Extraction, Machine Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.
Translation, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Analysis, Dialogues and Text The group comprises 35 members including Research scholars, Research IITP-AI-NLP-ML Group
mining. In these areas he has authored or coauthored around 300 papers engineers, Lexicographers, B.Tech & M.Tech students. Several R&D
in the reputed journals and conferences. His research is supported by the projects duly sponsored by Industries and Govt. agencies are currently
Industries, such as Accenture, Wipro, Flipkart; and the govt. agencies such being undertaken.
as MeiTY, MHA, CDOT etc. He is the recipient of the Best Innovative Project
Award from the “Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)”, JSPS
Invitation Fellowship from the Govt. of Japan and Visesvaraya Young
Faculty Research Fellowship Award from Govt of India. He is listed in the
top-2% scientists of Stanford University findings. He has been serving as
an Associate/Acton Editors of prestigious journals, such as Neural
Networks, Computer Speech and Language, ACM TALLIP, Plosone etc, and Dr. Asif Ekbal & Dr. Arijit Roy
is involved in various international conferences as Area Chair, PC Co-chair,
Senior PC member. Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
IIT Patna, India-801103

Email:
[email protected] , [email protected], [email protected]
Department of Computer Science
https://ekbalasif.github.io and Engineering
https://arijit-iitkgp.github.io/
The department of CSE was established in 2008 and currently offers
undergraduate and postgraduate and undergraduate programmes in
Please contact:
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Data [email protected], [email protected]
Science, & Artificial Intelligence.
Bihta, Bihar, India
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Applications

19. March 7 14:30-15:30 PM Tutorial on tools of Data

Visualization
S. No Date Time Topic

1. March 3 10:00-11:00 AM Lecture 1 (Part I): Introduction to 20. March 7 16:00-17:00 PM Tutorial on NLP applications-
Sentiment Analysis
Information is knowledge, information is money, and information is NLP & Machine Learning

power. Unlike before, a huge amount of information is freely available on

the Web today. In an era of social connectedness, in fact, people are 2. March 3 11:30 AM-12:30 PM Lecture 1 (Part II): Introduction to
Symbolic & Subsymbolic AI
becoming increasingly enthusiastic about interacting, sharing, and
collaborating through social networks, online communities, blogs, Wikis, 3. March 3 14:30-15:30 PM Tutorial on basic tools of NLP
and other online collaborative media. In recent years, this collective ●​ Industry personals: INR 10000
intelligence has spread to many different areas, with particular focus on 4. March 3 16:00-17:00 PM Tutorial on basic tools on ●​ Faculty members/ Experts from R&D institutions: INR
fields related to everyday life such as commerce, tourism, education, and Machine Learning 5000
health, causing the size of the Web to expand exponentially. The ●​ Indian students: INR 1,000
distillation of knowledge from such a big amount of unstructured 5. March 4 10:00-11:00 AM Lecture 2 (Part I): One-Hot
Encoding & Bag-of-Words Model
information, however, is an extremely difficult task, as the contents of
today’s Web are perfectly suitable for human consumption, but remain 6. March 4 11:30 AM-12:30 PM Lecture 2 (Part II): Vector Space
hardly accessible to machines. The opportunity to capture opinions and Model & Cosine Similarity
intentions of the general public about social events, political movements,
7. March 4 14:30-15:30 PM Tutorial and assignment on word Payment:-https://www.onlinesbi.sbi/sbicollect/icollecthome.htm?corpID
company strategies, marketing campaigns, and product preferences has
representation =1968961
raised growing interest both within the scientific community, leading to Application form:
many exciting open challenges, as well as in the business world, due to 8. March 4 16:00-17:00 PM Tutorial and assignment on https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFtZ-5A2VQPIHwfiGEQIkJ3i
the remarkable benefits to be had from marketing and financial market Vector Space Model _UdZAIMeDmeWYy1ys-vH4QFg/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0
prediction. Existing approaches to information retrieval and extraction
mainly rely on parts of text in which categorical information is explicitly 9. March 5 10:00-11:00 AM Lecture 3 (Part I): Linguistic
Analysis & Normalization
expressed, e.g., through keywords and their co-occurrence frequencies.
However, opinions and intentions are often conveyed implicitly through 10. March 5 11:30 AM-12:30 PM Lecture 3 (Part II): Classification &
latent semantics, which make purely syntactical approaches ineffective. Clustering
In this light, this seminar focuses on the introduction, presentation, and ●​ Step-1 Go to the “Important links” section and register
discussion of novel AI techniques that further develop and apply 11. March 5 14:30-15:30 PM Tutorial on Classification
Techniques- Naive Bayes, yourself with the registration link.
reasoning tools and techniques for information retrieval and extraction. A Decision Tree, Support Vector ●​ Step-2 For payment, please select the option "GIAN-AI Data
key motivation for this seminar, in particular, is to explore the adoption of Machine
Representation" from the “Payment Category” of the
novel reasoning frameworks and AI systems to go beyond a mere dropdown menu. After filling the personal details such as
word-level analysis of natural language text and provide novel 12. March 5 16:00-17:00 PM Tutorial on Clustering
Name, Organization etc., please select appropriate
Techniques- K-means, LDA,
concept-level tools and techniques that allow a more efficient passage HLDA “Category” from the dropdown menu and similarly select
from (unstructured) natural language to (structured) the appropriate amount to be paid from the “Registration
machine-processable data, in potentially any domain. 13. March 6 10:00-11:00 AM Lecture 4 (Part I): Neural
Fee” and download the fee receipt.
Networks & Word Embeddings
●​ Step-3 Please, fill the application form with the required
14. March 6 11:30 AM-12:30 PM Lecture 4 (Part II): Recurrent details and upload your payment receipts to confirm your
Neural Networks &
Transformers
participation.
●​ No TA, DA will be provided to the participants. Participants
15. March 6 14:30-15:30 PM Tutorial on Keras, Pytorch have to arrange their own accommodation and food.
However, limited shared accommodation may be made
●​ Executives, engineers and researchers from service and
16. March 6 16:00-17:00 PM Tutorial and assignment using available (subject to availability) in the Institute Hostels on
government organizations including R&D institutions. RNN and Transformer request on a first come first serve basis. Payment for
●​ Students at all levels (BTech/MSc/MTech/PhD) or
accommodation & food is extra as per actuals.
Faculty from reputed academic institutions and 17. March 7 10:00-11:00 AM Lecture 5 (Part I): Data
technical institutions. Visualization & Interpretation