I am a second year graduate student at Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. I completed graduation with honors  in Information Technology from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad in July 2007.

I work on TeamTalk project, under the supervision of Alex Rudnicky.  My primary area of interest spans in the spectrum between Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing and Information Retrieval, and anything interdisciplinary between Computer Science and Cognitive Science. I wish to study Psychology some day.

 Research

Societal and behavioral changes in the automatons has brought them out of the labs closer to mankind. As people befriended to them and in turn they expected cooperative and interactive dialogue with their new friends. Although, it is not surprising that their new friends are not so understanding yet eager to understand them. The missing link between their friends and them is higher order assumptions relevant to a situational dialogue. Current day dialogue systems are task oriented, limited vocabulary and user-initiated systems. Although, they understand most situational requests made by their users, yet they fail to capture  higher order information like intention, external knowledge relevant to a situation, and appropriate way to interview humans to help them in return. I am eager to investigate in this area, thus help to take these automatons even closer to the mankind for our welfare. Therefore, I now intend to pursue doctoral program at CMU and contribute my best efforts towards improving the state of the art in dialogue systems.



Publications

• Aasish Pappu. In the Proceedings of  PACLIC 23, the 23rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Language, Information and Computation.
• Matthew Marge, Aasish Pappu, Benjamin Frisch, Thomas K. Harris, and Alexander I. Rudnicky. Exploring Spoken Dialog Interaction in Human-Robot Teams.  In the proceedings of USARSim Workshop at 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Robots.
• Aasish Pappu, Ratna Sanyal,  Vaakriti: Sanskrit Tokenizer,  to be published in the proceedings at International Joint Conference for Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) '08, Hyderabad, India.
• Aasish Pappu, Tejaswi Tenneti and U. S. Tiwary, COFFEE: Compiler Framework For Executables in English,  accepted for proceedings at Symposium for Natural Language Processing (SNLP) '07, Pattaya, Thailand.
• Aasish Pappu and Ratna Sanyal, Vaakriti: Sanskrit Tokenizer , poster presented at ELITEX '07 organized by Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi, India. [jpg]
• Animesh Trivedi and Aasish Pappu, SpamWall: Heuristic Filter for Web-Spam,  accepted at WIC/IEEE/ACM Intl. Joint Conf. on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology ’06, Hong Kong. [pdf]
• K. Ashwin Kumar, Aasish Kumar Pappu, K. Sharat Kumar, Sudip Sanyal, Hybrid Approach for Parallelization of Sequential Code using Block level and Function level Parallelization, published in the proceedings at IEEE PARELEC '06, Poland.

Technical Report

• Bachelor Project Dissertation: Representation of Email to ensure better resistance from heavily obfuscated emails. Lab for Computer Communications and Applications, EPFL, Laussane, Switzerland. [Report]