2025
ALOPE: Adaptive Layer Optimization for Translation Quality Estimation using Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance across a wide range of natural language processing tasks. Quality …
From Search Relevance to Content Safety
Invited talk at eBay discussing the evolution from search relevance to content safety in information retrieval and GenAI-based systems.
Connecting Ideas in Lower-Resource Scenarios: NLP for National Varieties, Creoles, and Other Low-resource Languages
Despite excellent results on benchmarks over a small subset of languages, large language models struggle to process text from languages …
2024
Generative AI and Natural Language Processing
Invited lecture at IET Surrey discussing Generative AI and Natural Language Processing. ChatGPT and other large language models are now …
2023
Efficient and Explainable Information Retrieval
Keynote speaker at eBay Tech day discussing Efficient and Explainable Information Retrieval.
Workshop: Teaching Neural Machine Translation to Translators
The workshop explored questions on the lines of how should knowledge about neural machine translation be disseminated in the …
Advances in Natural Language Processing @ Surrey
This was a poster I presented at Convergence 2023. I discuss the work done, the collaborations, our NLP Cafe and publicly available …
Quality Estimation for Machine Translation
Presented as a co-chair on the panel, ‘Natural Language Processing Augmenting Translation and Interpreting’ at Convergence …
2022
Cognitive Natural Language Processing
In this talk, I discuss the interdisciplinary area cognitive NLP. I discuss the various intersections which give it a unique blend and …
Quality Estimation
In this talk, I discuss the Quality Estimation (QE) for Machine Translation (MT). I discuss the basics of the QE task, and the QE …
Dialouge Processing: The role of NLP and building blocks of a chatbot
In this invited talk to the LITHME WG8 meeting, I gave an introduction to chatbots and its basic building blocks. We discussed the role …
Transformers: Perspectives from NLP
In this talk, I discuss the Transformers architecture in some detail along with the evolution of embeddings in the NLP sub-area of AI. …
Introducing Neural Machine Translation (NMT) to Translators
Should translators understand the power of the technology behind Google Translate and other providers of machine translation? We think …
2021
Quality Estimation for Machine Translation
Current Machine Translation (MT) systems achieve very good results on a growing variety of language pairs and datasets. However, they …
2020
Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation
The focus of this tutorial is to cover the breadth of the literature on recent advances in Unsupervised Machine Translation. The …
Investigations into the use of Distributed Semantics for Cognate Detection and Computational Phylogenetics
In this talk, I present my primary PhD contributions where different embeddings aid in the tasks of cognate detection, and …
2018
Natural Language Processing and its intersection with Data Science
In this talk, I discuss Natural Language Processing, Data Science and how they are related to each other. While presenting the …
2016
NLP Fundamentals at VIVA IET
In three different talks, I discussed various facets of fundamental NLP research being done at CFILT, IIT Bombay. The first talk one …
