THE AI-NLP-ML group

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Patna



About

he Artificial Intelligence–Natural Language Processing–Machine Learning (AI-NLP-ML) Group in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Patna officially began its journey in June 2015. Under the leadership of Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, and supported by faculty members Dr. Asif Ekbal and Dr. Sriparna Saha, the group is committed to advancing research in AI, ML, and NLP. It comprises around 45 members, including research scholars, engineers, lexicographers, and B.Tech/M.Tech students, and is currently engaged in several industry-sponsored projects.

In collaboration with the group, Elsevier has established the Elsevier Centre of Excellence for Natural Language Processing to drive innovation in emerging areas of AI, NLP, and ML. Additionally, ezDI has launched the Sushrut-eZDI Research Lab on Health Informatics, aimed at developing impactful healthcare solutions and fostering research in the domain.

📢 Latest News

  • ✅ One paper accepted in AAAI 2025
  • ✅ One paper accepted in COLING 2025
  • ✅ One paper accepted in NAACL 2025 (Student Research Workshop & Short Papers)
  • ✅ Multiple papers accepted in AAAI 2024
  • ✅ Multiple papers accepted in LREC/COLING 2024
  • ✅ Multiple papers accepted in EACL 2024
  • ✅ Multiple papers accepted in EMNLP (Findings) 2024
  • ✅ Multiple papers accepted in EMNLP 2024
  • ✅ One paper accepted in IJCAI 2024
  • ✅ One paper accepted in ACM Multimedia 2024
  • ✅ One paper accepted in NAACL-HLT (Findings) 2024
  • ✅ One paper accepted in WMT 2024
  • ✅ One paper accepted in Expert Systems With Applications
  • ✅ One paper accepted in PAKDD 2023
  • ✅ One paper accepted in EACL 2023
  • ✅ One paper in Scientific Reports (h5 index: 206)
  • ✅ One paper in PLOS ONE with Samsung (h5 index: 186)
  • ✅ One paper in Multimedia Tools and Applications (h5: 87)
  • 🏆 Best Student Paper Award in JCDL
  • 🚀 Three papers in ECIR 2023, Dublin
  • 🌐 One paper in AAAI-2023, USA
  • 🧠 One paper in Information Fusion, Elsevier (IF: 17.56)
  • 💡 Collaboration with Flipkart featured in media

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Ongoing Projects

BHASHINI, Funded by MeitY, Govt. of India
Coil-D - Center for Indian Language Data
Ongoing
Wipro (with IIIT Delhi and UT Austin)
HELIOS - Hate, Hyperpartisan, and Hyperpluralism Elicitation and Observer System
Ongoing
MHA, Govt of India
IITP Centre of Excellence in Cyber Crime Prevention against Women and Children – AI based Tools for Women and Children Safety
Ongoing
TDIL, MeiTY, Govt. of India (Consortium of 4 institutes)
Indian Language to English Statistical Machine Translation
Ongoing
MHRD and MeiTY, Govt. of India
A Platform for Cross-lingual and Multi-lingual Event Monitoring in Indian Languages
Ongoing
Skymap Global
Indian Language to English Statistical Machine Translation
Ongoing
LG Soft
Information Extraction
Ongoing
CDAC-IIT Patna
CDAC-IIT Patna Centre for Cyber Security
Ongoing
Accenture Pvt. Limited
ATL IIT AI Lab
Ongoing
Elsevier
Centre of Excellence for Natural Language Processing-IITP
Ongoing
ezDI
Sushrut: ezDI Research Lab on Health Informatics-IITP
Ongoing
IITB, IITP
IITB-IITP-NLP-ML
Ongoing