Seminar by Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharya
Natural Language Understanding in Multi-lingual Information Processing
Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharya
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
Time: 03:30 PM
Venue: CS-101
Abstract
This talk will focus on the emerging standard of Universal Networking Language - which will enable users to translate between languages by first converting the semantic structures into UNL. The IIT Mumbai group is the first group in the world to develop a English to UNL, UNL to Hindi, and UNL to Marathi modules.
About the Speaker
Pushpak Bhattacharya is an Associate Professor in CSE Department at IIT Bombay. He did his BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1984. He completed his MTech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1986. He completed his PhD from IIT Bombay in 1993. His interests are in the areas of Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning.