"From Information to Knowledge: Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing"
An intensive 10-day winter school focusing on the computational foundations of finding, processing, interpreting, and organizing textual information through conceptual lectures, hands-on labs, and research mentorship.
"From Information to Knowledge: Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing" connects Information Retrieval with Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Knowledge Representation, Semantic Search, Question Answering, and Multilingual Information Access through conceptual lectures, hands-on laboratories, and research-oriented discussions.
Participants will engage with foundational concepts as well as cutting-edge research paradigms under the direct guidance of prominent academics and industry researchers.
SRM University-AP, Andhra Pradesh, Neerukonda, Mangalagiri Mandal, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh - 522240, India.
Inverted index, Boolean models, tokenization, stemming, lemmatization, and text preprocessing baselines.
Vector space models, TF-IDF, BM25, Learning to Rank, MAP, NDCG, trec_eval, and ir_measures metrics.
Language modeling, POS tagging, dependency parsing, sequence labeling, and classical statistical NLP.
Word embeddings, contextual representation, self-attention, and Hugging Face transformer architectures.
Named Entity Recognition (NER), relation extraction, Knowledge Graphs, and entity linking.
Dense passage retrieval, vector databases (FAISS), RAG models, and open-domain QA.
Cross-lingual IR, Indic-NLP encoders, transliteration, and low-resource text processing.
Research problem identification, open challenges, hallucination, and future research pathways.
Practical modules on text retrieval, information extraction, semantic search, and question answering in Python.
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
IIT Patna
Associate Professor and Associate HoD
Department of CSE
SRM University-AP
Assistant Professor
Department of CSE
SRM University-AP
Twin-sharing, air-conditioned rooms will be provided to registered participants inside the SRM University-AP campus hostel.
Twin-sharing rooms in campus hostel.
Round-the-clock campus security and Wi-Fi access.
SRM University-AP, Andhra Pradesh, Neerukonda, Mangalagiri Mandal, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh - 522240, India.
"Decoding AI: Building Explainable and Robust Intelligence" (Dec 12 – Dec 24, 2024)
Participants gathered from across universities in India.
Lectures by Dr. Abhishek Singh, Prof. Sumantra Dutta Roy, and Prof. Nibaran Das.
Laboratory exercises and research guidance.
