God does not exist ...

This is what I have realized after my foreign trip . Have you ever realized that where these Gods and Goddess live or how they survive ? Does science has a answer for this ? No ..  Not at all . How can Ravana have ten heads  Or Goddess Durga have ten hands ? Is it possible that any one can live a life with ten heads ? This is a mythological figure and there is no reality associated with it . When we were  a child we used to like to listen these mythological stories  . But these are really stories , pure stories . In which universe they live ? In which planet ? Does anyone has a answer ? Is there anybody who has talked or seen God ? Yes , in his dreams , not with his real eyes . As a scientist I cant understand that why people rely too much on these God and Goddess but not on efforts or " Work Done" or " KARMA   " . If your Karma is good and OK then you don't have to rely on God . Believe  on your  Karma not on your fate . God does exist in the heart of human being not in temples . Here God means some good quality of human being. This is what Rabindranath Tagore says . He also says .... " Man makes God and due to his sympathy  God's superiority exists " ( Manushi Debota gore tahari kripar pore kore deb mahima nirvar ).  

Another book on MT ( Machine Translation )

HandBook of Natural Language Processing & Machine Translation ( Joseph Olive , Caitlin Christianson and John McCary Editors ) 

Statistical Machine Translation by Philipp Koehn

Statistical Machine Translation is a very good book . Really it is very helpful when you are learning NLP or MT ( Natural Language Processing or Machine Translation ) . The book has three parts . The first part gives you detailed tutorial about NLP and Probability theory . The second part is the main part of the book and the third part is advanced part . Statistical Machine Translation is a very interesting topic now a days . There are several MT related projects which are  going on now a days . Anuvadaksh is a MT project on which currently I am working . So this book is very helpful to me .

Each and every chapter of this book is really help full . I feel some difficulty understanding some topics in the third part which is advanced topics . Though slowly slowly I will cover the whole book. 

Flame & Grill

Yesterday we spent a night at Flame & Grill in South City .  Partha Pakray completed his PhD viva yesterday and for that occasion he offered a dinner at Flame & Grill . This is my first time that I had a dinner at Flame & Grill . That was awesome . There was live performance of singers at Flame & Grill . The starter was very nice . And then comes the main course . Also drinks ( I dont prefer alcoholic drinks ) . We all the members of the NLP lab joined the dinner . My two students Parijat and Ashis also joined us in the dinner . Prawn , Chicken , Mutton , Biriyani , Fried Rice , Meat Curry , Fish , Ice Cream , Sweets , Fruits ,  Salads everything was there . As there was  many items of foods so cost was really high . Altogether we twelve people from NLP lab joined the dinner .We enjoyed a lot at Flame and Grill . We wish all the best for Partha Pakray's bright future . 

Prof Niladri Chatterjee ( IIT Delhi , Department Of Mathematics ) in NLP Lab in CSE Dept in Jadavpur University

Oriental COCOSDA 2013 at KIIT College , Gurgaon , Haryana

My Nepal Tour ( This Puja , Oct 2013 )

Today is Saturday

Though today is Saturday , but I am in the office . I love to come to office whenever office is open ( thats mean whenever Jadavpur University is open , it may be a holiday officially ) . I generally come to office around  10 AM in the morning and then I leave my lab around 9 PM in the night . I spend a lot of time in office . Doing your research for doctoral degree and again doing work of the project from which I get my salary are not so easy . I have to play double role for double amount of work in the lab . Apart from that publishing new innovative research papers , attending conferences across the country , attending seminars of world famous scientists , these are extra amount of activities which I have to do  in present . But it is a lovely job , I mean I am 100% satisfied with my job , my research and my activities . Again I am taking care of few students in private coaching in lab and also in the house in my holidays . These give me some financial benefits and some amount of recapitulating my previous course materials . Private coaching is a really nice concepts for new researchers . My project sponsors monetary help for buying valuable books and also for attending international conferences . Thanks to ANUVADAKSH ( English To Indian Language Machine Translation Phase I & II ) project . This project is my bread and butter . For this project I have come to know some world famous Profs in India and in abroad . Recently I have submitted my synopsis for doctoral degree course in next four or five years to the PhD committee in Jadavpur University . I have also appeared for PhD entrance test in Jadavpur University . I have come to know that I have three supervisors in the PhD course . The First Supervisor is Prof ( Head OF Department , Computer Science & Engineering , Dean Of Faculty Of Engineering ) Sivaji Bandyopadhyay , Second Supervisor is Dr Srinivas Bangalore , World famous Speech Scientist from AT&T Labs Research , NJ , USA . The Third Supervisor is Dr Sudip Kumar Naskar ( Assistant Prof of Jadavpur University , Department of Computer Science & Engineering ) . My PhD topic is Speech To Speech Translation . Hope I will successfully finish my PhD in next four or five years .        

My new interest ( Probabilistic Graphical Model )

In NLP lab , CSE Dept. , JU , I have bought ( money was sponsored by EILMT II project ) this book named Probabilistic Graphical Model Principles and Techniques by Daphne Koller and Nir Friedman. 

IEEE Seminar on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence ( PAMI 2013 )

Prof Amita Chatterjee , former  Vice Chancellor Of Presidency University 

 Prof Sankar Kr Pal awarded Padma Shree by Indian Govt in 2013

Brain & Its functions ...

BRain - the most important part of human body . It is the central operating system of the body . Every time we think , we blink our eye , even we move our hand , there is some chemical reaction is happening in the brain and some electric current flow occurs , thats why we are alive , or the brain is alive .  When this electric flow stops , then brain death occurs .  There is a new trend in Brain science , that is Brain atlas or Brain mapping .  Different part of the brain is responsible for different functions of the body . In Brain Atlas the scientists and Doctors are trying to map human or animal brain for a particular disease or particular functions . USA has already declared a large amount of money to be spent in Brain Mapping .  It is really very interesting -- the BRain Atlas . If we successfully develop brain atlas then we can detect the causes of mental disorders or some neuron related diseases . In the recent conference of BRain and Consciousness in ISI Kolkata scientists and doctors discussed a lot about this Brain Mapping .  They also discuss about mental disorders like Schizophrenia , Bipolar disorder and also about Hub gene etc . There were present Prof Dwijesh Dutta Majumder and also some other eminent scientists and doctors across India . Invited talks and other lectures were very important in its contents . Prof Amit Konar lecture was another important lecture in the conference . He talked about artificial limb or prosthetic limb and how to use them just like normal limb . He also discussed about fMRI and other methods of capturing human brain signals in computers . This is called Human Brain Computer interaction . It is a very interesting topic . This two day conference was really helpful for me and for my friends understanding brain and its functions . 

National Conference on Brain & Consciousness 2013 at ISI Kolkata

with Prof Amit Konar at ISI Kolkata 

Durga Puja is coming !!

Durga puja is coming . Puja is knocking the door . Its a great feeling to celebrate Bengali's greatest festival with joy and pleasure . Shopping is already done . New clothes give a special dimension in the joy of the festival . Not only new  clothes but  new shoes , new friends , new "love" everything is there in air of puja . A sense of love is prevailing in the air . Love is in the air . A very romantic feeling that can not be expressed in words . Dura puja is our greatest festival , but it is celebrated all over the world , not only in various parts of India , but different parts of the world . Thats why it is becoming international . I have a plan for celebrating Durga Puja . All day ( the five days of Durga Puja  Sasthi + Saptami + Asthami + Nabami + Bijaya Dashami  ) Pandle hopping with friends , eating at restaurants , enjoying Dhak's musical sound , dancing with burning   Dhunuchi and then late night Addas . After that a tour to Nepal ( Kathmandu , Pashupati Nath's Temple )  for ten days .  This is the schedule of my puja vacation . In the midst of this joy , I have to attend a seminar at St Thomas College at 8 - 9 oct 2013 . I have got the invitation from my college to attend the seminar . I will attend that definitely . There are several puja cassettes already available in the market , and also some puja Barshikis . Puja is coming , love is in the air . I have already bagged some gifts from my sisters and my brother - in - laws . These are awesome gifts . These are puja gifts .

At Home My Laptop

At Home My Book Selves

SEECAT 2013 Group Photo

Richard Ross in SEECAT 2013

Peter Juel Henrichsen in SEECAT 2013

Philipp Koehn in SEECAT 2013

Michael Carl in SEECAT 2013

Srinivas Bangalore in SEECAT 2013

In Copenhagen Business School

                                         SEECAT 2013 participants

Copenhagen Business School Poster 

Copenhagen Business School Book Self 

SEECAT 2013 Team in Denmark

Some Pictures in Denmark and The Picture of Copenhagen Business School , SEECAT 2013 Workshop venue

Tapabrata Mondal in Denmark 

Copenhagen Business School 

Tapabrata Mondal in Denmark 

Tapabrata Mondal in Denmark 

Tapabrata Mondal in Denmark