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Advertisement for Tutorial at The International Joint Conference on
Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2008)
Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2008)
The tutorial will be held on Monday, 7th January, 2008 at IIIT Hyderabad (the same place that hosted IJCAI 2007). Please kindly circulate this information to everyone whom you feel are/might be interested.
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T1. Social Network inspired Models of NLP and Language Evolution
Human language with all its intricacies is one of the finest examples of a complex system, which makes it absolutely necessary to study the faculty of language within the framework of the emerging new science of complexity. Complex systems are often modelled as networks of entities (nodes) and their interactions (edges) â€" popularly known as complex or social networks. Network based models are empirically analyzed to understand the structure of the underlying system, and they are synthesized from the first principles to study the evolutionary dynamics.
The objective of this tutorial is to show how language and its dynamics can be successfully studied within the framework of social networks as is being evident from the growing body of work in this area. We will particularly demonstrate the relevance of social network-based methods in the development of a large variety of natural language processing applications. The tutorial will also highlight the importance of these methods in understanding the mechanisms of language evolution and change. The tutorial will cover the basics of complex network theory followed by three case studies related to syntax, mental lexicon and language evolution.
Presenters
Monojit Choudhury is a post doctoral researcher in the Multilingual Systems Group, Microsoft Research, India.
Animesh Mukherjee is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
Niloy Ganguly is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
Animesh Mukherjee
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Research Scholar,
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Microsoft Research Fellow,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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