Professional Activities

Academic events organized

1. Co-editing a Special Issue of the Artificial Intelligence and Law journal on "Applications and Evaluation of Large Language Models in the Legal Domain". Special Issue Editors:  Jack Conrad (Thomson Reuters), Saptarshi Ghosh (IIT Kharagpur), Debasis Ganguly (University of Glasgow), Kripabandhu Ghosh (IISER Kolkata). [online edition - papers to be published after acceptance]

2. Co-chaired the track "Artificial Intelligence on Social Media" (AISoMe) at the Annual Conference of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2023), December 2023. Proceedings published as part of CEUR Workshop Proceedings Volume 3681.

3. Co-organized as General Chair, the 3rd Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Law (SAIL-2023), at IIIT Hyderabad, February 24 - 26, 2023 [event website] [Recordings on Youtube]

4. Co-chaired the track "Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters" (IRMiDis) at the Annual Conference of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2022), December 2022. Proceedings published as part of CEUR Workshop Proceedings Volume 3395.

5. Co-organized the 2nd Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Law (SAIL-2022), virtual event, June 6--9, 2022. [symposium website] [Recordings on YouTube] [Report in SIGIR Forum newsletter]

6. Co-chaired the track "Artificial Intelligence for Legal Assistance (AILA)" at the Annual Conference of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2021), December 2021. Proceedings published as part of CEUR Workshop Proceedings Volume 3159.

7. Co-chaired the track "Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters" (IRMiDis) at the Annual Conference of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2021), December 2021. Proceedings published as part of CEUR Workshop Proceedings Volume 3159.

8. Co-organized the Indo-German Law-AI symposium (IGLAIS-2021) on September 29, 2021. [symposium website]

9. Co-organized the 1st Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Law (SAIL-2021), virtual event, May 31 -- June 04, 2021. [symposium website] [Recordings on YouTube]

10. Co-chaired the track "Artificial Intelligence for Legal Assistance (AILA)" at the Annual Conference of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2020), December 2020. Proceedings published as part of CEUR Workshop Proceedings Volume 2826. 

11. Co-chaired the track "Artificial Intelligence for Legal Assistance (AILA)" at the Annual Conference of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2019), December 2019. Proceedings published as part of CEUR Workshop Proceedings Volume 2517.

12. Co-chaired the Young Researchers' Symposium with The ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (CODS-COMAD) 2019 (with Sahely Bhadra, IIT Palakkad) (conference site).

13. Co-chaired the Social Networking Workshop with International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS) 2019 (with Rishiraj Saha Roy, MPI-INF) (workshop site).

14. Co-chaired the track "Information Extraction from Microblogs Posted during Disasters" at the Annual Conference of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2018), December 2018. Proceedings published as part of CEUR Workshop Proceedings volume 2266.

15. Workshop on Legal Data Analytics and Mining (LeDAM 2018), co-located with ACM CIKM, Turin, Italy, October 22, 2018 -- Member of organising committee (workshop site). Proceedings published as part of CEUR Workshop Proceedings Volume 2482.

16. International Conference on Networked Digital Earth (ICNDE) at IIT Kharagpur, March 2018 -- Member of organising committee. (conference site).

17. Second Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness (SMERP 2018), co-located with The Web Conference (erstwhile WWW), Lyon, France, April 2018 -- Member of organising committee. (workshop site).

18. Co-edited a Special Issue of the journal Information Systems Frontiers (Springer) on "Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness: Recent Research and Trends", volume 20, issue 5, October 2018. Editors: Saptarshi Ghosh, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Debasis Ganguly, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Gareth Jones, Marie-Francine Moens, Muhammad Imran. (online edition)

19. Co-chaired two tracks at the Annual Conference of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2017), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, December 2017: (1) Information Retrieval from Microblogs Posted during Disasters [link], (2) Information Retrieval from Legal Documents [link]. Proceedings of both tracks published as part of CEUR Workshop Proceedings Volume 2036.

20. First Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness (SMERP 2017), co-located with the European Conference on Information Retrieval, Aberdeen, Scotland, April 2017 -- Member of organising committee. (workshop site) Proceedings published on CEUR Workshop Proceedings Volume 1832 [indexed by DBLP].

21. Co-chaired the track "Information Extraction from Microblogs Posted during Disasters" at the Annual Conference of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2016), Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, December 2016. Proceedings of the track published as CEUR volume 1737.

22. Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks -- IX, satellite workshop with the Conference on Complex Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2016 -- Member of organising committee. (workshop site)

23. Workshop on Big Data Analytics and Management, at IIEST Shibpur, September 01-10, 2016 (workshop site) (sponsored by TEQIP)

24. Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks -- VIII, satellite workshop with the International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci), Zaragoza, Spain, June 2015 -- Member of organising committee. (workshop site)

25. Short Term Course on Social Media Analysis and Data Mining, at IIEST Shibpur, June 10-14, 2013 (link to event) (sponsored by TEQIP)

26. Short Term Course on Data Warehousing and Data Mining, at BESU Shibpur (sponsored by TEQIP), March 24-27, 2009

Invited talks & Tutorials

1. Invited talk on "NLP for the Legal Domain" at the Workshop on Using Artificial Intelligence to Assess Risks in Construction Contract Documents, at IIT Madras (May 11, 2024)

2. Invited as a panelist on NLP for Legal Analytics at the National Workshop on Technology and Law, organized by IIT Jodhpur and National Law University Jodhpur (April 6, 2024)

3. Invited talk on "Social Media Research: An Introduction" at the Interdisciplinary Workshop for Research in Humanities, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur (February 5-9, 2024)

4. Invited talk on "NLP for the Legal Domain: Challenges and Methods" at Microsoft IDC Data Science Speaker Series (November 23, 2023)

5. Invited talk on "Summarization of Court Case Documents: Challenges and Methods" at Workshop on AI-Powered Justice (NyAI) at NIT Kurukshetra (November 6 - 10, 2023)

6. Invited talk on "AI Systems and their Regulation" at the JIRICO International Conference on Innovation for Shared Prosperity: The Future of India’s emerging technologies, organized by O.P. Jindal Global University (October 6-7, 2023) 

7. Invited talk on "NLP for the Legal Domain" at the Symposium on NLP for Social Good at the University of Liverpool, UK (June 8-9, 2023)

8. Tutorial on "Legal IR and NLP: the History, Challenges, and State-of-the-Art"  at the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Dublin, Ireland [with Debasis Ganguly (University of Glasgow), Jack G. Conrad (Thomson Reuters), Kripabandhu Ghosh (IISER Kolkata), Pawan Goyal (IIT Kharagpur), Paheli Bhattacharya (IIT Kharagpur), Shubham Kumar Nigam (IIT Kanpur) and Shounak Paul (IIT Kharagpur)] (6 April 2023)

9. Invited talk on "NLP for the Legal Domain" at the Workshop on Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning, organised by the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, DRDO (24 January 2023)

10. Tutorial on "AI & Law: Formative Developments, State-of-the-Art Approaches, Challenges & Opportunities" at the Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (CODS-COMAD), Mumbai, India [with Jack Conrad, (Director and Lead Research Scientist, TR Labs, Thomson Reuters), Shirsha Ray Chaudhuri (Director of Engineering, Thomson Reuters), and Shounak Paul (PhD student)] [resource page] (4 January 2023)

11. Invited talk at the Workshop on AI and Law (WAIL2022) co-located with the International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2022) on "Summarization of Court Case Documents: Challenges, Methods, and Analyses" (15 December 2022)

12. Keynote talk at the International Conference on Innovations in Data Analytics (ICIDA 2022) on "Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Vaccine-related Opinions through Social Media Analytics" (29 November 2022)

13. Invited talk at Thomson Reuters (AI@TR Invited Speaker Series) to a global TR audience on summarization of court case judgements (14 July 2022)

14. Invited talk at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS) on AI and Legal Data Analytics (11 February 2022)

15. Invited talk at the International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2021), on application of Natural Language Processing for Legal Data Analytics (20 December 2021)

16. Invited talk at the L3S Research Center, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany, on utilising social media to track opinions on COVID vaccines (29 September 2021)

17. Invited lecture on "Bias in Social Search and Recommendation" at the ACM Winter School on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Artificial Intelligence, Virtual event (January 2021).

18. Tutorial on Online Social Networks at International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Networks (CINE) 2020, organized at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (28 February 2020).

19. Invited talk on "Utilizing Online Social Media for Disaster Relief and Preparedness" at University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata (31 January 2020).

20. Invited talk on "Artificial Intelligence and Legal Data Analytics" at 4th National Colloquium on Legal Research, organized by Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT Kharagpur (15 March 2019).

21. Invited talk at International Workshop on Emergency Response Technologies and Services (EmerTES), co-located with ICDCN 2019, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (7 January 2019) [workshop site].

22. Invited talk on "Utilizing Online Social Media for Disaster Relief and Preparedness" at ETH Zurich (26 October 2018).

23. Invited talk on "Utilizing Social Media for Post-Disaster Relief" at IEEE Signal Processing Society Student Branch Chapter, IIT Kharagpur (21 March 2018).

24. Invited talk on "Utilizing Social Media for Post-Disaster Relief" at the CODS-COMAD 2018 International Conference at Goa, India, January 2018.

25. Tutorial at the annual meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2017) conference, on "Keyword Queries for Product Search", at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, December 2017 (along with Dr. Muthusamy Chelliah, Flipkart)

26. Talk at Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Social Good, organised by Microsoft Research India, at IISc Bangalore, October 2017

27. Talk at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, on "Utilizing Social Media for Disaster Relief", August 2017

28. Invited to attend Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2017 at Redmond, USA, July 17-18, 2017

29. Talk at MSR Summer Workshop on Artificial Social Intelligence 2017, organised by Microsoft Research India, on "Social Network Analysis", June 2017 [Youtube link]

30. Talk at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Research Labs, Kolkata, on "Improving Information Retrieval over Online Social Media", March 2017

31. Talk at the Workshop on Big Data and R, at Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, on "Algorithms for utilizing the Web and Social Media for Disaster Management", February 2017

32. Talk at the Workshop on Advanced Applications of Algorithms, Department of Information Technology, IIEST Shibpur, on "Information Retrieval Algorithms for the Web and Social Media", December 2016

33. Talk at Centre for Urban Science and Engineering (C-USE), IIT Bombay, on "Utilizing Online Social Media for Disaster Management", November 2016

34. Talk at Kalyani Government Engineering College, on Use of Online Social Media during Disasters, November 2016

35. Tutorial at IEEE Workshop on Distributed Systems for Coordinated Disaster Management (CORDIM), on "Utilising Online Social Media for Disaster Management", at Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, January 2016 [Youtube videos of the tutorial: part 1 and part 2]

36. Talk at National Seminar on Role of Technical Education and Professional Societies to Make in India, organized by the Council of Engineering and Technology (India), on "Dealing with Disasters: Role of Engineering and Technology", December 2015 (at Science City, Kolkata)

37. Talk at Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur, on "Characterizing information production and consumption in online social media", September 2015

38. Talk at "Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks -- VII", satellite workshop with the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS) 2014, September 2014.

39. Talk at short term course on "Introduction to Opportunistic Mobile Networks and its Applications", at Department of Computer Science and Technology, NIT Durgapur, January 2014

40. Invited poster titled "Recent issues in Indian Railways: Congestion, Delay and Accidents" at IBM Collaborative Academia Research Exchange (I-CARE), October 2013 (link to event)

41. Talk at short-term course on Recent Advances in Network Algorithms, at Department of CSE, IIT Guwahati, September 2013 (link to event)

42. Talk at Workshop on Social Computing, at Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur, October 2012 (link to event)

Reviewing

Journals reviewed for (selected)

• Section Editor on Legal Information Retrieval for Artificial Intelligence and Law, Springer (2022 - )

• ACM Transactions on the Web

• ACM Transactions on Asian Language and Low-Resource Information Processing

• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

• IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems

• Computer Communications, Elsevier

• Information Systems, Elsevier

• Information Processing & Management, Elsevier

• Artificial Intelligence and Law, Springer

• Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer

• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Springer

Conferences / Workshops (selected)

• LREC-COLING - Area Chair (2024)

• AAAI Senior PC member (2021)

• The Web Conference (erstwhile WWW) (2020, 2022, 2023)

• ACM SIGIR (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)

• International Conference on AI and Law (ICAIL)  (2021, 2023)

• ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) (2021)

• ACM Web Science 2016

• ACM CSCW 2016

• ACM CoDS-COMAD (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)

• IEEE COMSNETS (2016, 2017, 2018)

• Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022)