AI-NLP-ML GROUP

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2025

🚀 One paper accepted in AAAI 2025
🎉 One paper accepted in COLING 2025
📚 One paper accepted in NAACL 2025 (Student Research Workshop & Short Papers)

2024

🔥 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

2023

✅ One paper accepted in Expert Systems With Applications (h5-index: 132, IF: 8.665)
✅ One paper accepted in PAKDD 2023 (h5-index: 31)
✅ One paper accepted in EACL 2023 (Core-A; h5-index: 62)
✅ One paper accepted in Scientific Reports (h5-index: 206)
✅ Two papers accepted in PLOS ONE
✅ Two papers accepted in Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer (h5-index: 87)
✅ One paper accepted in International Journal of Digital Libraries, Springer (IF: 1.9)
✅ One paper accepted in Information Fusion, Elsevier (IF: 17.56)
✅ One paper accepted in Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier (IF: 8.038)
✅ One paper accepted in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (h5-index: 66; IF: 3.919)
✅ One paper accepted in Information Processing and Management, Elsevier (Core-A)
✅ One paper accepted in Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier (IF: 8.139)
🚀 Three papers accepted in ECIR 2023
🌐 One paper accepted in AAAI 2023, USA (Feb 7-14, 2023)

2022

🔥 Five papers accepted in COLING 2022
🎓 Soumitra Ghosh awarded Microsoft Research Travel Grant 2022 to attend IJCAI 2022, Vienna
🏆 Best Student Paper Award in JCDL for paper "DeepAsPeer" by S. Kumar et al.
✅ One paper accepted in Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press (Core Rank A)
✅ One paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
💡 Collaboration with Flipkart featured in media (native language interface and local language models)
✅ One paper accepted in IJCAI-ECAI 2022 (AI for Good Track, Core Rank A*)
✅ One paper accepted in International Journal on Digital Libraries (2022)
🎙️ GIAN course on "Deep Learning Techniques for Conversational AI" by Dr. Soujanya Poria (April 13-24, 2022)
✅ Two papers on Conversational AI accepted in NAACL-HLT 2022
✅ One paper accepted for publication in SIGIR 2022 (Core Rank-A*)
✅ One paper accepted for publication in Neurocomputing, Elsevier
✅ One paper accepted for publication in JCDL 2022 (Core Rank-A*)
✅ One paper accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
✅ One paper accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
✅ One paper accepted for publication in Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group
✅ One paper accepted for publication in Expert System with Applications, Elsevier
✅ One paper accepted for publication in ACM Transaction on Asian and Low-resource Language Information Processing (ACM TALLIP)
✅ One paper accepted for publication in Computational Linguistics journal (Core Rank A*) by MIT Press
✅ One paper accepted for publication in PLOS ONE (h5 index: 185, Impact Factor: 3.24)
✅ Four papers accepted in ECIR 2022 (Core Rank A)
✅ One paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (Impact Factor: 10.506)
✅ One paper accepted in Machine Translation Journal, Springer
✅ One paper accepted in Scientific Reports
🏅 Faculty members Dr. Asif Ekbal and Dr. Sriparna Saha listed in the top 2% scientists worldwide by Stanford University, Elsevier

🎓 Sandeep Kumar, PhD Scholar, awarded Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF)
🏅 Dr. Sriparna Saha invited to Editorial Board of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), Elsevier (IF: 6.2)
🎓 Mr. Abhisek Tiwari selected for PMRF under guidance of Dr. Sriparna Saha and Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya
🏅 Best Paper Runner-up Award in ICADL 2021 for the paper "PEERAssist" by P. Bharti et al.
✅ Six papers accepted at ICONIP 2021
✅ One paper accepted in IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence
✅ One paper accepted in IEEE Access (h5-index: 164)
✅ One paper accepted in Multimedia Tools and Applications (Impact Factor: 2.757)
✅ One paper accepted in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
✅ One paper accepted in ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing
✅ One paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
✅ One paper accepted in ACM Transactions on Information Systems (Impact Factor: 2.312)
✅ One paper accepted in Expert Systems with Applications (Impact Factor: 6.954)
✅ One paper accepted in Multimedia Tools and Applications (Impact Factor: 2.313)
✅ One paper accepted in Information Processing & Management
✅ One paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
📄 Paper accepted: Multilingual and Code-Mixed Visual Question Answering via Knowledge Distillation, EMNLP 2021 (Findings)
📄 Three papers accepted at ICADL 2021:
- 📘 ContriSci: BERT-based multitask deep learning for contribution statements
- 📘 PEERAssist: Predicting peer review decisions using paper-review interactions
- 📘 DataQuest: Dataset mention extraction from scientific papers
📄 Paper accepted: What the fake? (Misinformation detection), Information Processing & Management, Elsevier
📝 Blog: Arindam Chatterjee (PhD scholar) writes on code-mixing — an IIT Patna–Wipro collaboration
📢 Recruitment Notice: JRF, SRF, Lexicographer, RA under AI-NLP-ML projects funded by MeitY, SERB, MHA, Wipro, Flipkart, Accenture
👩‍🔬 Dr. Sriparna Saha joins Editorial Board, PLOS ONE (h5-index: 175)
📄 Two papers accepted: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (IF: 2.428)
📄 Two papers accepted: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
📄 One paper accepted: European Physical Journal Special Topics (IF: 1.668)
📄 One paper accepted: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (IF: 4.62)
👩‍🔬 Editorial roles for Dr. Sriparna Saha:
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (IF: 3.015)
- Expert Systems with Applications (IF: 5.452)
- IEEE Internet Computing (2-yr IF: 5.277)
🏅 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Dr. Asif Ekbal featured in latest CS Rankings
📄 Two papers accepted: JCDL 2021 (Core Rank-A*)
📄 Paper accepted: Information Processing & Management, Elsevier (IF: 4.784, Core-A)
📄 Paper accepted: ACM TALLIP
📄 Paper accepted: Applied Intelligence (IF: 3.325)
📄 Paper accepted: PLOS ONE (IF: 2.74)
📄 Paper accepted: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
📄 Two papers accepted: Knowledge-Based Systems (IF: 5.921)
📄 Paper accepted: Pattern Recognition Letters (IF: 3.255)
📄 Paper accepted: Wiley Trans. on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (IF: 1.594)
👨‍🔬 Editorial Appointment: Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya joins JNLE (Cambridge Univ. Press)
🏅 Dr. Sriparna Saha recognized among leading women AI researchers in India
📄 Paper accepted: ACM TKDD (Impact Score: 5.78)
📄 Paper accepted: Cognitive Computation (IF: 4.307)
📄 Paper accepted: Applied Intelligence (IF: 3.325)
🏅 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya among Top AI Researchers in India (2020), Analytics India Magazine
📄 Paper accepted: AAAI 2020
📄 Paper accepted: Cognitive Computation, Springer
🏅 Dr. Sriparna Saha listed in Stanford–Elsevier's Top 2% Scientists in AI (source)
📄 Paper accepted: ACM TALLIP
📄 Paper accepted: Applied Soft Computing (IF: 5.472)
🎓 Kshitij Mishra awarded Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF)
🏆 IIIT Bhagalpur–IIT Patna team (LaySumm, CL-SciSumm, LongSumm tasks) wins best performance at CL-SciSumm 2020 (EMNLP workshop)
📄 Paper accepted: Scientific Reports (IF: 4.120)
📄 Two papers accepted: Expert Systems with Applications (IF: 5.452)
📄 Paper accepted: Multimedia Systems (IF: 1.563)
📄 Two papers accepted: COLING 2020
📄 Paper accepted: EMNLP Findings 2020
📄 Three papers accepted: AACL-IJCNLP 2020
📄 Two papers accepted: ICONIP 2020
📄 Paper accepted: Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier
📄 Paper accepted: Computers & Electrical Engineering (IF: 2.663)
📄 Paper accepted: IEEE J. of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IF: 5.180)
📄 Four papers accepted: ICONIP 2020 (Category A)
📄 Paper accepted: Cognitive Computation (IF: 4.980)
📄 Paper accepted: IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing (IF: 7.512)
🧑‍⚖️ Prof. Asif Ekbal to serve as Senior Program Committee Member, IJCAI 2020
🧑‍⚖️ Prof. Asif Ekbal to serve on the AAAI 2020 Program Committee
💡 MoU with Flipkart for joint research in AI, NLP & ML (Link, Link)
✅ One paper accepted in Computers in Biology and Medicine (IF: 3.434)
✅ One paper accepted in Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (IF: 6.912)
✅ One paper accepted in IEEE/ACM TCBB (IF: 3.015)
✅ One paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
✅ One paper accepted in Natural Language Engineering
✅ One paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
✅ One paper accepted in IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
✅ One paper accepted in ACM TKDD
✅ One paper accepted in Neurocomputing
✅ One paper accepted in Scientific Reports (IF: 4.120, h5: 178)
📘 Asif Ekbal appointed Associate Editor at SN Computer Science (Springer)
📘 Asif Ekbal to serve as Area Chair for EACL 2021 (Resources and Evaluation)
🚀 Three papers accepted at IEEE ICPR 2020 (Link)
✅ One paper accepted in Multimedia Tools and Applications (IF: 2.101)
✅ One paper accepted in PLOS ONE (IF: 2.776, h5: 176)
✅ One paper accepted in Expert Systems and Applications (2020, IF: 4.292)
✅ One paper accepted in Soft Computing Journal (2020, IF: 2.784)
🚀 Three papers accepted in IEEE-CEC 2020 (h5: 66)
✅ One paper accepted in ECIR 2020 (Core A)
✅ One paper accepted in Cognitive Computation Journal (2020)
✅ Three papers accepted in ACL 2020
✅ Five papers accepted in LREC 2020
📚 CEP Course on Deep Learning for NLP (Jan 10–23, 2020)
🏆 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya awarded Abdul Kalam National Fellowship
🎓 Naveen Saini received IEEE CIS grant for WCCI 2020, Glasgow
🏆 Tirthankar Ghosal won Best Research Poster at Research Scholar Day 2020
📘 Tirthankar Ghosal appointed Co-editor of SIGIR Forum 2020
🎓 Dushyant Singh Chauhan awarded Prime Minister Fellowship for Doctoral Research
🌍 Asif Ekbal & Tirthankar Ghosal in EurNLP 2020 organizing committee (Paris)
🌍 Tirthankar Ghosal organizing FORCE 2020 (Spain)
🌍 Tirthankar Ghosal invited as Financial Access Co-Chair, ACL 2020 Diversity & Inclusion
📘 Asif Ekbal joins as Associate Editor of Machine Translation Journal (Springer)
✅ One paper accepted in Knowledge Based Systems (2019, IF: 4.287)
✅ One paper accepted in Scientific Reports - Nature (2019, IF: 4.15)
🎓 Sukanta Sen received Microsoft Research Travel Grant to attend ACL 2019 (Florence)
🎓 Tulika Saha received Microsoft Research Travel Grant for IJCNN 2019 (Budapest)
🎤 Dr. Asif Ekbal is chairing in the Question-Answering Track of NAACL-2019, a top-tier NLP conference.
🧑‍💼 Dr. Asif Ekbal is in the Senior Program Committee of IJCAI-2019, a top-tier AI conference.
🏅 The work on “Novelty, Scope, Quality: On Exploring Artificial Intelligence for Scholarly Communications” won Best Poster at FORCE 2019, University of Edinburgh.
🗣️ Tirthankar Ghosal presented the above work and conducted a panel on "AI for Peer Review" at FORCE 2019.
✈️ Tirthankar Ghosal invited to attend the European NLP Summit 2019 at Facebook HQ, London.
🎤 Tirthankar Ghosal invited to present at FORCE 2019 with full travel scholarship.
🤝 Tirthankar Ghosal was core member of Diversity & Inclusion committee at NAACL 2019, managing merit-based grants.
🎓 Tirthankar Ghosal awarded Microsoft Research Travel Grant 2019 to attend IJCNN 2019, Budapest.
🔬 Tirthankar Ghosal selected as Visiting Research Scholar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US (Mar-Aug 2019).
📢 Tirthankar Ghosal presented research at IRISS 2019, ACM India Annual Event, Kochi.
📄 Four papers accepted for publication in ICON 2019.
📄 One paper accepted in NLE 2019.
📄 One paper accepted in PLOS ONE 2019.
📄 One paper accepted in Swarm and Evolutionary Computation 2019.
📄 One paper accepted in IEEE Intelligent Systems 2019.
📝 Dr. Asif Ekbal selected as Associate Editor of Machine Translation Journal, Springer.
📄 Seven papers accepted in ICONIP 2019.
🤝 MoU signed with Wipro for Indian Language Chatbot project.
📄 One paper accepted in IEEE Trans. on CSS 2019.
📄 One paper accepted in ACM TKDD 2019.
📄 One paper accepted in ACM TMCCA 2019.
📄 One paper accepted in ESA 2019.
📄 One paper accepted in SPI 2019.
📄 One paper accepted in TALLIP 2019.
📄 One paper accepted in EMNLP 2019.
📄 Four papers accepted in ACL 2019.
📄 One paper accepted in IEEE/ACM TCBB 2019.
📄 One paper accepted in NLDB 2019.
📄 One paper accepted in IJCNN 2019.
📄 Five papers accepted in JCDL 2019.
📄 Two papers accepted in NAACL 2019.
📄 Ten papers accepted in CICLing 2019.
📄 One paper accepted in IEEE JBHI 2019.
📄 Two papers accepted in ACM TALLIP 2018.
📄 Two papers accepted in EMNLP 2018.
📄 Five papers accepted in ICONIP 2018.
📄 One paper accepted in CoNLL 2018.
👩‍🔬 Dr. Sriparna Saha selected for Indo-U.S. Fellowship for Women in STEMM (WISTEMM) Program 2018.
🏆 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya conferred IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumnus Award 2018.
📄 One paper accepted in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 2018.
🏅 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya listed among Top 10 Machine Learning Researchers in India.
📄 Multiple papers accepted in various journals and conferences (Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, PRICAI, COLING, Knowledge and Information Systems, Information Sciences, Soft Computing, WOSP, JCDL, IJCNN, NAACL-HLT, CICLing, ACM TKDD, LREC).
💼 PhD scholar Deepak Gupta secured 4-month research internship at Microsoft Maluuba, Montreal, Canada.
🏅 AI-NLP-ML group ranked 9th in Asia as per CS Ranking: Computer Science 2018.
🤝 Collaboration between IIT Patna and School Of Computing, DCU.
✍️ Tirthankar Ghosal awarded AWSAR 2018 by DST for popular science writing on "AI in Peer Review".
🎓 Tirthankar Ghosal awarded Microsoft Research Travel Grant and Visvesvaraya Conference Grant to attend COLING 2018.
🏅 Deepak Gupta selected as research intern at Microsoft Maluuba, advised by Prof. Yoshua Bengio and Prof. Richard Sutton.
🎤 Tirthankar Ghosal invited speaker at FORCE11 2018 on AI in scholarly communications, sponsored by CrossRef.
🎓 Tirthankar Ghosal awarded ACM SIGIR Student Travel Grant to attend JCDL 2018.
🎓 Naveen Saini received Microsoft funding and IEEE CIS Travel Grant for IJCNN 2018.
🏅 Dr. Sriparna Saha awarded Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Fellowship by MeitY, Govt. of India.
🏅 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya listed among Top 10 Machine Learning Researchers in India.
🏅 Dr. Sriparna Saha awarded SERB Early Career Research Award and SERB Women Excellence Award 2018.
🎓 Naveen Saini awarded Microsoft Lab Travel Grant for ICONIP 2017.
🧑‍💼 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya appointed Head of Committee for AI Standardisation by Bureau of Indian Standards, Ministry of Consumer Affairs.
📰 Research on Computational Sarcasm reported in The Times, London Edition (Sept 19, 2017).
📖 "Machine Translation Book" by Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya ranked highly in top book lists.
📝 Dr. Sriparna Saha chosen Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Asian Low Resource Language Information Processing.
🎓 Dr. Asif Ekbal awarded prestigious JSPS Fellowship from Japan Government for research at Kyoto University.
🎉 Congratulations to Shad and Shweta for selection in Google's NLP Summit 2017, Zurich.
🎓 Shweta Yadav received Google Fellowship to attend and present at EACL 2017.
📄 Papers accepted in BMC Bioinformatics, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Computers in Biology and Medicine (2017).
🤝 SkyMap Global partnership with IIT Patna on Deep Learning & AI integration.
📄 Two papers accepted in ICON 2017.
🏆 IIT Patna ranked 108th in QS University Rankings: BRICS.
🎤 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya gave talk "Opportunities in a New IIT" at WSU.
📄 Papers accepted in MT Summit, Soft Computing Journal, EMNLP 2017.
📝 Dr. Sriparna Saha Associate Editor of ACM Transaction on Asian Low Resource Language Information Processing.
📄 Papers accepted in Knowledge-Based Systems, NLDB, CICLING (2017).
📝 Survey paper on Automatic Sarcasm Detection accepted in ACM Computing Surveys.
🎓 Dr. Asif Ekbal awarded Young Faculty Research Fellowship of Visvesvaraya PhD scheme.
📄 Papers accepted in EACL 2017, ICON 2016, COLING 2016, Molecular BioSystems Journal.
🏅 Dr. Sriparna Saha received BIRD Award 2016 and NASI Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award (2015-16).
🎤 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya gave Presidential Address at ACL 2016.
📄 Papers accepted in Expert Systems With Applications, ICPR 2016, Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier.
🤝 AI-NLP-ML group signed MoU with Accenture Pvt. Limited.
✈️ Europe and America visits of Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Director IIT Patna.
📄 Papers accepted in NLDB, Gene Reports, LREC, CICLING, IEEE WCCI (2016).
🎓 GIAN workshop on Introduction to Natural Language Processing.
🏅 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya assumed office of ACL from January 2016.
🎤 Dr. Asif Ekbal served as Chair for Student Paper Competition at ICON-2016.
🏅 Dr. Sriparna Saha selected for IEI Young Engineers Award 2015.