The Third-Person Biography
Bishal is a Ph.D. Scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur from July, 2018. He is working under the supervision of Prof. Pawan Goyal. His research involves building new machine learning models for Chatbots and exploring methods for using large scale Knowledge Graphs in other downstream applications. He is a member of the Complex Network Research Group(CNeRG) as well.
He did his B. Tech and M. Tech in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering (spcl. in Visual Information Processing and Embedded Systems) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He also has a minor in Computer Science and Engineering.
Where to find me?
Or else in General Research Lab, Computer Science and Engineering Dept., IIT Kharagpur, India
News
- 🎉 📜 We have a new paper accepted in EMNLP 2023 (Findings) titled “Frugal Prompting for Dialog Models”.
- I gave a tutorial on “Intent Detection: From Sesame Street to LLMs”, for Datathon, IndoML 2023. (Video Link, Tutorial Codes)
- I presented a paper titled “Representation Learning for Conversational Data using Discourse Mutual Information Maximization” at NAACL 2022.
- I co-authored a paper titled “Hierarchical Transformer for Task Oriented Dialog Systems” at NAACL 2021.
- Our paper “A Graph Based Framework for Structured Prediction Tasks in Sanskrit” got published in Computational Linguistics (December 2020) journal.
- Preprint released on Arxiv: “Exploring Effects of Random Walk Based Minibatch Selection Policy on Knowledge Graph Completion.”
- “Incorporating Domain Knowledge into Medical NLI using Knowledge Graphs” accepted (short-paper) at EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019.
- “Poetry to Prose Conversion in Sanskrit as a Linearisation Task: A case for Low-Resource Languages.”: short-paper accepted at ACL 2019.
- I co-authored a paper titled “VPDS: An AI-based Automated Vehicle Occupancy and Violation Detection System” published at IAAI 2019.
- My EMNLP 2018 paper is titled “Free as in Free Word Order: An Energy Based Model for Word Segmentation and Morphological Tagging in Sanskrit.”
- Paper accepted at COLING 2016 titled “Word Segmentation in Sanskrit Using Path Constrained Random Walk.”
Blog Posts
Explaining Issues with Channel Method in LLM Prompt-based Classification
Prove that the set of algebraic numbers are countable (using primes)
Is \sum_{i=1}^n 1/n divergent?
How to Connect through an SSH Jump Server (For CNeRG project students)
Transformer Language Models and Pretraining
English to Hindi Transliteration using Seq2Seq Model
Deep Sentiment Analysis
Text Classification using Naive Bayes Method
Training a Language Model with a Xtra-Small Transformer (Transformer-XS)
Simple Reddit Dialogue Preprocessor
How I created this site using Jekyll?
Generating Gamma Random Variable in CUDA in Parallel
Minimum Mean Squared Error (MMSE) Estimator
DecycledJSON - Circular reference breakers for JSON