Central Library in Jadavpur University

I have become  a life time member of Jadavpur University Central Library only at a cost of Rs 1000 . It is really nice . Advantage of becoming a life member of JU CL  is that at a time you can borrow three books and you can keep them for a month and again for another month after reissuing . You can access Reading room , Digital library and reference room at any time with the card in office hours . My main focus is to be strong in Mathematics . I have borrowed book of probability theory , Discrete mathematics , Graph theory , Queueing Theory , statistics etc . There is a huge collection of maths book in central library . Some are very good . Advantage of using CL is that you can not only borrow books of your related topics but you can also take a look of books of other subjects also . Yesterday I saw books of Organizational Behavior , Entrepreneurship ,  Wire less net work , Mechanics of  Mechanical Engineering , compiler design ,  six sigma of statistics etc at the rake of Pierson Education and other rakes. This is something new addition . There is arrangement of chilled drinking water also . Really it is very pleasuring to be there . But the only thing I should mention that the reading room and the reference rooms are non AC .Thats the problem thats why I cant spend much time there reading books in day time . After six o' clock its ok to be there . The temperature is low then . But the digital library is also very nice . You can spend there for hours reading tutorials or other on line educational magazines or surfing tutorial web sites . I spent hours for GRE on line exam practice. Playing with GRE words is an old practice of mine . I like to use bombastic words in my text when it is necessary cause it looks better and gives a real sense of knowledge of literature . Apart from that you can also take on line tutorial courses offered by Stanford University or Princeton University on various subjects .   These course are really useful for preliminary ideas about a subject . 

IEEE seminar on Computational Intelligence

IEEE seminar on Computational Intelligence

REcently  at St Thoumas' College Of Engineering and Technology , IEEE Computational Intelligence society organized a two day seminar on Computational Intelligence in Information System , Imaging and security on 3 rd and 4th August 2012 . The first lecture was of Dr Tinku Achariya who discovered the web cam . Prof Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay   from ISI Kolkata Machine Intelligence Unit delivered a lecture on K mean's clustering . Prof Ujjal Mallik delivered a lecture on Genetic ALgorithm . I liked best the lecture delivered by Prof Amit Konar . He spoke about Prosthetic limb or artificial limb . His topic was human brain computer interaction . How human thinking can operate a robot . Basically giving a robot the same characteristics that of a human brain provided some biological interaction can not be operated in robot , just like hormone reaction . But easily robot can dance at the comment of human or at the thought process of human . Actually IEEE Spectrum gives   us detail description of how human brain can be interpreted by robot using some sensor nodes . This is the greater advantage for physically challenged people . I am totally enthralled by the subject matter . It is fantastic . If you are interested in this human brain computer interaction then read some articles on online magazine of IEEE Spectrum . It will help you understanding the subject matter . Apart from that Prof Pabitra Mitra delivered a lecture on information retrieval . Though the subject was not unknown to me . 

Me in Delhi at Ashray Guest House in March 2012

An Australian friend at CICLING 2012 in Delhi

CICLING 2012 at Lal Kella in Delhi

CICLING 2012 at LAL Kella in Delhi (four friends)

CICLING 2012 at Delhi with Prof Niladri Chaterjee

CICLING 2012 with an Australian friend at Lal Kella in Delhi

CICLING 2012 at IIT Delhi

With Prof Niladri Chatterjee and others

With Prof Sivaji Bandyopadhyay and Prof Alexander Gelbukh

Me in NLP Lab

After a long time

After a long time I am writing this blog . Actually these days I am busy with my research works . Currently I am doing research on Machine Translation and I have started my work on Speech Processing . Though speech processing is not a easy task . At first you have to read some books on Digital Signal Processing and signal processing books . Actually speech processing is a robust task . Its a part of Natural Language Processing . It needs some linguistics knowledge and also some engineering woks . Actually our goal will be speech to speech processing . Source speech to source text conversion , source text to Target text conversion and Target text to Target speech conversion . These are the basic building blocks of Speech to Speech TRanslation . My another research interest in MAchine learning . Specially domain adaptation and other ML theorems like HHM ( Hidden Markov Model ) , MEMM ( Maximum Entropy Markov Model ) CRF ( Conditional Random Field ) . These are basically machine learning rules . These are all related to Probabilistic models . Coming back to speech to speech translation interest , verbmobil is a project basically dealing with some foreign languages speech to speech translation system in built in Mobile Technology . Though it was started at early 2000 , but I don't have a clear understandings of their system . Actually I have started reading a text book on verbmobil system . Currently I am reading a book named Theory and Application of Digital Speech Processing . And also I have bought a book named Springer Hand Book of Speech Processing . These books are costly . My Natural Language Processing Lab has supported me the financial help to bought these and many others books for lab . I am thankful to my LAB. 

Prof Sudeshna Sarkar Came to Jadavpur University

Prof Sudeshna Sarkar came to Jadavpur Univeristy  last Saturday . We had a discussion with her on the Project ILMT . Sanjay and Barik also came to JU  with her . We had a two to three hours discussions on some problems related with Machine Translations from Hindi to Bengali or  vice versa . I gave some suggestions to them . They also gave some suggestions to me . Prof Sudehna Sarkar suggested me to do a PhD in India or abroad . She is very nice and intelligent . We had some discussions on Spelling Correction in Bengali Language . She gave some ideas and algorithms like soundex algorithm , Levenshtein Algorithm , Phonetically matching algorithm . She also discussed about transfer grammar , echo word , onomatopoeic expressions , multi words importance in Machine Translations . 

ICON 2011

Recently I attended ICON 2011 conference .Before that I attended Multi Word Expression workshop in Chennai at AUKBC Research Center in Anna University . Prof Pushpak Battacharya from IIT - Mumbai , Prof Dipti Misra Sharma from IIIT - Hyd , Prof Rajiv Sanghal from IIIT - Hyd , Prof Shobha L from AUKBC and several others were present in the workshop . I learned several linguistic features for MWE in Indian Languages . MWE workshop was held for two days . After that there was pre-conference tutorial . The first day tutorial was Prof Robert Dale 's Grammar Checking Tutorial . It was very nice tutorial . After that there was Sreenivas Bangalore 's Mobile Computing Tutorial . He was from At&T Research Center in USA . He showed us how NLP is used in Mobile Net Work . His tutorial was very nice . In the main conference I met Prof Sudeshna Sarkar from IIT Kgp and PhD researcher Prashanth Manen from IIIT-Hyd . I also met Dr. Dipti Misra Sharma in the main conference . The ICON 2011 main conference was held for two days . All the papers were very nice . I met with Prof Neladri Shekhar Das . He was from ISI - Kolkata . I met Sanjay Chaterjee . He is a PhD researcher from IIT - kgp .
I am very happy that I have attended the conference .