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Seminars by me

Introduction to Machine Translation [B.Tech Seminar] (September 2007)

As part of my B.Tech curriculum, I gave an introductory seminar on Machine Translation (MT), giving an overview of the various approaches (corpus-based and noncorpus-based) being used for it and discussing the current state of the art.

Spoken Dialog Systems (October 2006)

I had conducted a seminar cum workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems during Tathva 2006 (our college's annual all-India technical festival). I gave a brief introduction about spoken dialog systems and then discussed about the various challenges involved in creating such a system. The rest of the seminar and the workshop that followed served as a tutorial for building a very simple spoken dialog system, which though not that intelligent, was still able to achieve the purpose of interacting with a computer using natural language dialogues. I taught the participants to use open source tools like Sphinx II Decoder, CMU-Cambridge LM toolkit and Festival TTS and Speech Tools to build the system.

Click here for the seminar slides: PPT

An Investigation into the problems of Pesticide Pollution and A Case Study of The Kasaragod (Kerala) Endosulfan Tragedy (November 2006)

This was a seminar given by me in fulfillment of the Environmental Studies course in the fifth semester. I started the talk with a general introduction about pesticides and their usage trends in Indian agriculture. I then discussed the various environmental and biological problems arising out of the indiscriminate use of pesticides, and suggested various preventive and remedial measures to tackle the situation. I also presented the results of my case study on a district in Kerala, which was a victim of pesticide (Endosulfan) pollution.

Click here for the seminar slides: PPT

Workshops by me

Talking Calculator [An English Spoken Dialog System] (October 2006)

I complemented my seminar on Spoken Dialog Systems at Tathva 2006 with a workshop, that gave the participants a hands-on experience on the softwares I had discussed. I guided the participants to use simple PERL scripts (to do pattern matching and keyword-based NLP) and open source tools like Sphinx II Decoder, CMU-Cambridge LM toolkit and Festival TTS and Speech Tools to build a simple English-Talking Calculator.

Click here for the seminar slides: PPT

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Seminars / Workshops attended by me

MSR - IISc Summer School on Natural Language Processing (3 May 2007 - 18 May 2007)

I attended the 2 week summer school on natural language processing conducted by Microsoft Research India in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore at the IISc campus.

Click here for lecture notes / reference material related to the summer school: NLP Summer School

Click here for our group pic: School Pic

Free Open Source Software Meet at NIT Calicut (2005 - 2008)

I attended various editions of the annual F.O.S.S. meets that were organized at our NITC, and took active part in many of the seminars and hands-on workshop sessions.

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