News
'Searchko' on Dinamalar (26th July 2010)
Anna University students develop portal with search engine in Tamil - Deccan Chronicle (28th June 2010)
'Searchko' on The Telegraph (14th March 2010)
Events
Talk
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Title: Detection of Plagiarism and Text Reuse
Speaker: Alberto Barrón-Cedeño Department of Information Systems and Computation, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Date: Tuesday, Dec 8th, 2010
Time: 10.30 AM
Abstract:
In the last years, the plethora of text resources easily reachable on the WWW has increased the cases of text reuse and plagiarism. A countermeasure to such phenomenon is the generation of tools for automatic text reuse detection.
In this tutorial, we will give an overview of the state-of-the-art of plagiarism detection as well as the freely available tools and the commercial ones. Special emphasis will be given to the analysis of cross-language text reuse and plagiarism, a nearly approached problem. Moreover, we will discuss the results of the 2nd PAN competition on plagiarism detection (sponsored by Yahoo! Research) which is held in the framework of CLEF and where also Indian teams participated. (http://pan.webis.de)
Talk
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Title: Figurative Language Processing: Mining Humour and Irony from Social Media
Speaker: Prof. Paolo Rosso Department of Information Systems and Computation, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Date: Wednesday, Dec 8th, 2010
Time: 11.40 AM
Abstract:
Figurative language is one of the most arduous topics facing natural language processing (NLP). Unlike literal language, the former takes advantage of linguistic devices, such as metaphor, analogy, ambiguity, irony, and so on, in order to project more complex meanings which, the most of the times, represent a real challenge, not only for computers, but for humans as well. This is the case of humor and irony. This presentation aims at showing how two specific domains of figurative language? humor and irony, may be automatically handled by means of considering linguistic devices, such as ambiguity and incongruity, and meta-linguistic devices, such as polarity and emotional scenarios. We especially focus on discussing how underlying knowledge, which relies on shallow and deep linguistic layers, may represent relevant information to automatically identify figurative usages of languages. In particular, and contrary to the most of the researches which deal with figurative language, we aim at identifying figurative usages regarding language in social media.
Conference
- 9th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2011)
- 8th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution 2011 (DAARC 2011)
- 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution Colloquium (DAARC 2009)
Workshops conducted
- International Workshop on Referential Entity Resolution 2008
- Workshop on Named entity Resolution for ILMT and CLIA Project
- Indo-German Phase I and Phase II (with Prof. C.N. Krishnan)