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AI research in India
2006
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Preface
The special interest group in AI, of the Computer Society of India, is happy to present you
this compilation of AI activities in India. The compilation is aimed at furthering interaction
amongst AI researchers and to spread awareness of AI work in India.We hope that you will
find this compilation useful.
At the outset, let me mention that this compilation is an ongoing process, and hence surely
incomplete at any point of time! We will be maintaining an updated version of this on the
SIGAI website at http://sigai.cdacmumbai.in; do send in your inputs as and when you find
anything relevant. If you would like your group to be included, please fill in the form on the
last page. If you would like to have someone you know included, please let us know using
the referral sheet at the end or request them to fill in the form at the end of this booklet and
mail it to us. We would like to expand the reach to cover all the AI groups, however small,
in this compilation. Do spread the word around. We will keep updating the compilation
regularly based on such inputs.
This compilation is a process we started with the first national event of SIGAI - the
National Workshop on AI, held in CDAC Mumbai during July 2006. We have since then
revised the template incorporating additional information, and have also tried to reach out
to more institutions.
The compilation owes much to the conveners of SIGAI - Prof PVS Rao and Dr S Ramani,
and also to the steering committee of IJCAI-07 for the vision, guidance and support.
M Sasikumar
Secretary, SIGAI
January, 2007
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Table of Contents
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai........................................................................................ 6
Division of Remote Handling & Robotics (DRHR)...................................................................... 6
Autonomous Robotics Section (ARS)...................................................................................... 6
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing............................................................................. 7
CDAC Mumbai..............................................................................................................................7
Knowledge Based Computer Systems Division........................................................................ 7
HP Labs India, Bangalore.................................................................................................................. 9
Language Technology and Applications .......................................................................................9
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata...........................................................................11
Management Information Systems.............................................................................................. 11
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai............................................................................. 12
Department of Biotechnology......................................................................................................12
Computer Science and Engineering............................................................................................. 12
Interactive Intelligence Laboratory ........................................................................................ 12
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur........................................................................................... 14
Department of Computer Science and Engineering ....................................................................14
Department of Electrical Engineering .........................................................................................14
Department of Mechanical Engineering ......................................................................................15
Kanpur Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (KanGAL)............................................................... 15
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur...................................................................................... 17
Computer Science & Engineering................................................................................................17
Department of Civil Engineering................................................................................................. 17
Soft Computing in Civil Engineering...................................................................................... 17
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati........................................................................................ 21
Department of Computer Science and Engineering ....................................................................21
Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE)...................................................................22
Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai............................................................................24
Department of Computer Science and Engineering.....................................................................24
Natural Language Processing with focus on Indian Language Computing............................ 24
School of Biosciences and Bioengineering.................................................................................. 25
Intelligent Systems.................................................................................................................. 25
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad........................................................ 27
Centre for Data Engineering........................................................................................................27
Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT).....................................................................27
Language Technologies Research Centre....................................................................................28
Search and Information Extraction Lab.................................................................................. 30
Speech Processing Group....................................................................................................... 31
Robotics Research Center .......................................................................................................... 33
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.................................................................................................. 35
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Unit............................................................35
Indian Language, Script and Document Processing group..................................................... 35
Jadavpur University, Kolkata........................................................................................................... 36
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Computer Science & Engineering Department ...........................................................................36
National Chemical Laboratory, Pune................................................................................................37
Chemical Engineering and Process Development Division..........................................................37
Artificial Intelligence Systems Group (AISG)........................................................................ 37
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research .......................................................................................... 40
School of Technology and Computer Science ............................................................................40
Spoken Language Processing................................................................................................. 40
Tata Consultancy Services Limited.................................................................................................. 42
TCS Mumbai............................................................................................................................... 42
Cognitive Systems Research Laboratory (Applied Technology Applications Group)............ 42
TCS Delhi ................................................................................................................................... 43
iLab, Applied Artificial Intelligence........................................................................................ 43
Technology Innovation Lab.................................................................................................... 44
Area-wise Index of Research groups................................................................................................46
Information Template for the Compilation......................................................................................47
Referral Sheet................................................................................................................................... 48
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Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
Major focus areas of the group: Applications of AI in Robotics: Gait studies of legged robots,
Motion planning of Robot manipulators, Mobile robot navigation and mapping, Neural networks
for robot learning of obstacle avoidance and goal following.
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Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Major focus areas of the group: Data Mining, Expert Systems, Natural Language Processing,
Soft Computing, and Planning and Scheduling.
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Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
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HP Labs India, Bangalore
Major focus areas of the group: Recognition and Ink Processing, Information Embedding on
Paper.
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HP Labs India, Bangalore
are paper centric and extend opportunities to develop solutions for digital image analysis which
is the core area of our research program. Our research in this area focuses on solutions based
on analysis of digital images of paper documents. The interesting part of the research is that it
retains the end-user's present method of working on paper.
The core research areas in this field are: detection and segmentation of various objects in the
document image, image registration and ink extraction, and document image matching.
4. Security of Paper Documents
Security practices for paper documents are required in order to authenticate the document
source, the integrity of the information, and to distinguish copies from originals. We are
presently exploring various approaches to achieve this. The security practices for paper are
highly important in a variety of applications. An example for this is the delivery of Government
services through privately operated kiosks. Our research in this area deals with increasing the
density of information that can be embedded on paper, being able to deal with documents that
have pictures and different scripts, ensuring tamper-proof security of these documents, etc.
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Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata
Major focus areas of the group: AI Search Methods, Game Playing, Combinatorial Optimization,
Soft Computing and Artificial Neural Networks, Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Workflow,
Insurance, (Internet) Auctions etc.
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
Major focus areas of the group: Neural Networks, Principal Component Analysis
Major focus areas of the group: Automatic Speech Recognition, Automatic Speech Synthesis,
Reinforcement machine learning, Case based reasoning, Planning and Constraint Satisfaction.
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
Major focus areas of the group: Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation, Data Mining,
Natural Language Processing (Information Extraction, Document Summarization)
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Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Major focus areas of the group: Natural Language Processing, Vision, Soft Computing,
Robotics, Reasoning.
Major focus areas of the group: Expert Systems applications, Cognitive Modeling, Soft
Computing
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Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Major focus areas of the group: Optimization problems in engineering design, Multi-objective
Evolutionary Algorithms, Machine Learning
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Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
2. Multi-modal optimization
3. Multi-objective test problem design
4. Evolutionary multi-objective optimization and decision-making
5. Various applications of optimization methodologies
6. Evolutionary optimization with theoretical basis
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Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Major focus areas of the group: Natural Language Processing, Search, Machine Learning,
Planning
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Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Major focus areas of the group: Soft Computing, Data Mining, Cellular Automata
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Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Abraham, A.; Baets, B.d.; Köppen, M.; Nickolay, B. (Eds.) Applied Soft Computing
Technologies: The Challenge of Complexity, Springer 2006, ISBN: 3-540-31649-3
2. S V Barai (2006). Material Behaviour Modelling using Machine Learning Model, Divisional
Journal – Civil Engineering, Institution of Engineers (IEI), Vol. 87, November 2006, pp:59-66.
3. R. Rajarao Dharmacherla and S V Barai (2005). Structural Optimization using Cellular
Automata, International Journal of Lateral Computing, Vol. 2, No. 1, December 2005, ISSN
0973-208X, pp-14-21.
4. A K Dikshit, S V Barai and Sameer Sharma (2005). A study on air quality prediction: An
opportunistic Neuro-Ensemble Approach, Journal of Environmental Systems Vol. 30, No. 3,
pp:17-31.
5. P Sriram and S V Barai (2005). Weld Defect Classification using Wavelet Neural Networks,
International Journal of Lateral Computing, Vol. 1, No.1, May 2005, pp:15-22, ISSN: 0973-
208X
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Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
4. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) Based Ozone Forecast Using Moving Window Modelling
A new concept named, moving window modelling concept was used in combination with ANN
for developing ozone concentration forecast models. The effects of different input combinations
on ozone forecast were evaluated. The data of Maidstone from 16/04/2000 (midnight) to
31/12/2001 (11:00 P.M.) was used for the model development. The model was trained with
13480 training examples and tested at 1496 independent test points. The models’ performances
were evaluated with wide variety of statistical parameters. The index of agreement (d2) was
found to be in the range of 0.88 and 0.9883 with mean percentage absolute error (MPAE)
varying between 14.7% and 46.56%. Historical concentrations of NOx, CO did not improve the
models’ performance much in terms of index of agreement (d2) but had shown considerable
effect on mean percentage absolute error (MPAE). The historical values of ozone concentration
proved to be most important input and historical values of NO2 concentration proved to be the
second most important input parameter in ozone forecasting.
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Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Major focus areas of the group: Robotics, Soft Computing, Speech Processing, Agents, Natural
Language Processing.
Robots in the Net (RobIN) and RobIN-II were some of the initial attempts at facilitating an easy-
to-use deployment procedure. Later a feature to facilitate intelligence sharing amongst robots over
the network (intelligent Robots in the Network: iRobIN), was incorporated. Further to allow
untethered robots to roam around and communicate with each other a Mobile Ad hoc Network of
Intelligent Robots (MANER) was also built. Attempts are now being made to facilitate robots
within MANER to exchange/share intelligence amongst themselves. If more information is required
to cope with a problem at hand, they will attempt and reach out to others (robots) on the wired
network using the iRobIN framework. Current work involves the building of a
RoboSapienNetwork which finds its roots on iRobIN, MANER and SapienNet. The latter is a
human network that allows for unobtrusive discovery of information of people in the immediate
neighbourhood. It is envisaged that RoboSapienNet will allow both humans and robots to interact
and share intelligence and together form a congenial society.
Apart from this, we have used several bio-inspired techniques for intelligent control of robots.
Work on the use of artificial immune systems to make robots assist, co-operate and co-exist, has
also been carried out. Robot control techniques using Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic
algorithms to learn to avoid obstacles (on ground and space), to learn gaits, etc., have also been
tried and tested on real robots. It is envisaged that these techniques will be embedded on robots
that populate the RoboSapienNet implementation and eventually form a society of intelligent, co-
operative robots capable of co-existing with the human beings.
Besides these, other activities comprise the use of Genetic Algorithms, Artificial Neural Networks
and Fuzzy logic in a variety of intelligent applications including roller bearing dimension
optimization, question-answering systems, searches on the web, sensorimotor control and text
processing for both English and Indian languages.
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Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Relevant URLs:
iRobin and MANER: http://www.iitg.ernet.in/engfac/sbnair/public_html/iRobIN/robin-index.htm
RobIN: http://www.iitg.ernet.in/engfac/sbnair/public_html/RobIN/Default.htm
RobIN-II: http://www.iitg.ernet.in/engfac/sbnair/public_html/iRobIN/rajusbnair-badapanda.pdf
MANER and SapienNet: http://www.iitg.ac.in/engfac/sbnair/public_html/SapienNet.pdf
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Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Major focus areas of the group: Speech Processing, Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector
Machines.
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Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai
Major focus areas of the group: Semantics processing; Machine Translation among English,
Hindi and Marathi; Wordnets; Word Sense Disambiguation; Cross Lingual Information Retrieval;
MT Evaluation
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Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai
Major focus areas of the group: Learning; Intelligent Image Processing and understanding with
relevance to GIS; Intelligent Systems in design, engineering, health-care, manufacturing,
management, medicine, and resource analysis; Natural Language Processing; and Cognition.
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Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai
term memory possibly due to brain damage leads to reading disorder called Dyslexia. This
semantics model using the short-term memory and co-occurrence may be implemented using a
neural network. The network weights are initialized in a non-random manner based on problem
domain, which leads to significant lower minimum error. The work is applicable to text
classification yielding better classification accuracy than using support vector machines.
2. Heuristics in Scheduling:
Resource-constrained scheduling and resource-minimization problems are NP-complete
problems and the use of domain knowledge with sound heuristics could effect significant
improvements. We consider the class of window-constrained capacitated and non-capacitated
routing problems as those that may arise in vehicle routing and data networks with possibly
time-varying demands and delays. The local routes are generated using criticality measures
whereas the long-haul routes are generated using existing routes merger and templates
generation. A novel algorithm for determining dynamic shortest paths is obtained that is
particularly suitable for data communication and road networks with varying traffic, and
dynamic updates.
3. Optimal Drug Dosage with Relevance to Hypertension:
Drug design and dosage are two sides of the multi-sided complex problem in patient
management. This will have to take into account genetic, physiological and mental aspects of
patients as well as the specific pathways by which the drug operates. Optimal drug dosage for
hypertension was considered in a two-compartment model framework.
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Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai
Major focus areas of the group: Character Recognition, Document Image Processing, Vision
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International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
CVIT is actively involved with building tools for document understating tasks with special
emphasis on the Indian context. These include extensible, multi-lingual OCR systems, form
processing systems, document database systems that can index scanned documents, reading aid for
printed text, and on-line character recognition systems. Advanced prototypes of many of these
systems have been demonstrated at the institute's open house and other forums. The centre believes
that the rich, multi-lingual scenario existing in India provides special challenges to document
understanding research.
Other senior members: Dipti Misra Sharma (dipti@iiit.ac.in), Vasudeva Varma (vv@iiit.ac.in), S
P Kishore (kishore@iiit.ac.in), Lakshmi Bai (lakshmi@iiit.ac.in), Bipin Indurkya (bipin@iiit.ac.in),
Soma Paul (soma@iiit.ac.in), B Yegnanarayana (yegna@iiit.ac.in), Suryakanth V. Gangashetty
(svg@iiit.ac.in), Sriram V (sriram@research.iiit.ac.in), Anil Kumar Singh (anil@research.iiit.ac.in)
, Samar Husain (samar@iiit.ac.in), Rafiya Begum (rafiya@research.iiit.ac.in), M Prashanth Reddy
(prashanth@research.iiit.ac.in), Jagdeesh Yadav (jagadeesh@research.iiit.ac.in) and Arafat Ahsan
(arafat@iiit.ac.in)
Major focus areas of the group: Natural Language Processing, Search Engine, Information
Retrieval and Speech Processing
The aim here is to develop aids for overcoming language barriers and make on line text in any
subject domain accessible to readers across languages. A major project is development of Shakti
machine translation system, which translates text in English to various Indian and other world
languages. Work is in progress on parsing of English and Indian languages including shallow
parsers. Effort is on developing taggers, chunkers, statistical parsers, pp-attachment, semantic role
labeling etc. Machine learning techniques are being extensively used. Other related activity is for
building bilingual and monolingual lexical resources, annotated corpora including tree-banks,
grammars, transfer grammars, etc.
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International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
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International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Technology
2. Development of Specialized Search Tools for Indian Languages based on NLP
Funded by Dept of Science & Technology, Govt of India
3. RAVI - Reading Aid Software for visually impaired
Funded by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Major focus areas of the group: Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Search, Natural
Language Processing, Text Summarization, Document Categorization
Search and Information Extraction Lab (SIEL) focuses on solving research problems in the areas of
Information Retrieval and Extraction using NLP techniques. As a part of the Language
Technologies Research Center (LTRC) at IIIT, this research group tries to address IR, IE and
related problems leveraging on the Language Technologies research that happens in the other
groups at the LTRC. Major activities of this group include building search engines for Indian
languages, domain specific search engines, personalized search engines, named entity extraction,
automatic text summarization, focused web crawling and document categorization.
For example
1. User will be able to give a query in one Indian language and
2. User will be able to access documents available in
a. The language of the query,
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International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
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International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Major focus areas of the group: Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis, Dialog systems for
Indian Languages, Speaker Recognition, Speech Enhancement and Speech Signal Processing
Naturally speaking TTS systems are built in Telugu, Hindi and Tamil, while large vocabulary ASR
systems are built in Telugu, Tamil and Marathi. Limited domain speech-speech translation systems
from Tamil-to-Telugu, Telugu-to-Hindi have also been demonstrated. Limited domain dialog
systems where user can interact with the machine in speech-in and speech-out mode are being
attempted.
Our research focus is on real-time, low-memory TTS and ASR engines specifically for Indian
languages, dialog systems, extraction of linguistic knowledge for minority languages, acoustic
modeling for minority languages, statistical based parametric and articulatory speech synthesis, sub-
phonetic modeling for capturing pronunciation variations.
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International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Major focus areas of the group: Mobile Robotics, Multi Robotic Systems
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International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
1. Ganesh P Kumar and K Madhava Krishna, "Optimal Multi Target Detection by Multiple Sensors
by Moving to the Maximal Clique in a Covering Graph", IJCAI 2007, accepted (oral
presentation)
2. K Madhava Krishna and Henry Hexmoor, "A framework for guaranteeing detection
performance of a sensor network", Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering Journal, Volume
12, Number 3 / 2005, Pages: 305-317, IOS Press
3. A K Pandey, K Madhava Krishna and Mainak Nath, "Integrating features onto an occupancy
grid for sonar based safe mapping", IJCAI (International Joint Conference on AI) 2007 accepted
4. K. Madhava Krishna, R. Alami and T. Simeon, "Safe Proactive Plans and their Execution",
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 54 (2006) 244-255 (available online at
www.sciencedirect.com) November 2005
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Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Major focus areas of the group: Character Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Speech
Processing, Cross Lingual Information Retrieval
NLP and speech analysis of Indian languages are among other areas of strong interest of this
group. Development of Indian language Electronic dictionary, Spell-checker, morphological
processor etc were pioneered here. Language statistics, computational stylistics, multi-word
expressions and anaphora resolution are some other topics on which this group is working recently.
The first Bangla speech synthesizer was developed from this institute and our current interest is to
analyse the prosody and intonation pattern of general Bangla spoken words.
This group is also engaged in finding smart approaches for cross-lingual information retrieval,
especially involving Bangla and Hindi documents.
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Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Major focus areas of the group: Language Technology, Machine Translation, Question
Answering Systems
All these are consortium mode projects initiated by DIT, Government of India involving a number
of institutions at the national level. Jadavpur University is one of the partners of these three
projects. Prof. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay is the Chief Investigator of all these projects on behalf of
Jadavpur University.
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National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
Major focus areas of the group:Primary research activities of this group focus on both the theory
and applications of various Artificial Intelligence (AI) paradigms viz. Artificial Neural Networks
(ANNs), Genetic/Memetic Algorithms (GA/MA), Genetic programming, and Fuzzy Logic.
These formalisms have been extensively used for developing new modeling, classification, data
mining and optimization strategies for chemical, chemical engineering/technology, polymer and
biochemical processes. Specifically, AI-based applications have been designed, developed and
validated for steady-state and dynamic process modeling, process identification, nonlinear process
control, process monitoring, fault detection and diagnosis, process optimization, soft-sensor
development and input selection.
Other research interests of the AISG are: Control of nonlinear reacting systems, modeling using
multi-variate statistical methods such as principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least
squares (PLS), Modeling and classification using machine learning formalisms such as Support
Vector Machines (SVMs) and Support Vector Regression (SVR).
A few of the AI-based applications developed by the AISG are listed below:
1. Robust nonlinear control with neural networks.
2. Counter-propagation neural network (CPNN) as a look-up table for process fault
detection/diagnosis.
3. Artificial neural network assisted stochastic process optimization strategies.
4. Reaction modeling and optimization using ANNs and genetic algorithms: Case study involving
TS-1 catalyzed hydroxylation of benzene.
5. Development of artificial neural network based process identification and model predictive
control strategies for a pilot plant scale reactor.
6. Linear / nonlinear dimensionality reduction and feature extraction using conventional and AI-
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National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
based formalisms such as PCA, SAMANN, self-organizing map (SOM), and locally linear
embedding (LLE).
7. Input selection using fuzzy curves and surfaces.
8. Genetic programming assisted stochastic process optimization strategies.
9. Optimization of continuous distillation columns using stochastic optimization approaches.
10.Genetic algorithms to optimize batch-distillation.
11.GA based optimization of glucose to gluconic acid fermentation.
12.Soft-sensors for biochemical processes using support vector regression
13.Modeling and optimization of bio-chemical processes using ANN-GA hybrid approach
14.ANN-based models for predicting gross calorific value of Indian coals
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National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
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Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Major areas of focus in your group: Speech and Natural Language Processing
Unconventional approaches to language modeling have been tried out and successfully utilized for
development of grammar tools and communication aids in situations where the user has limited
reading ability in the first language and no familiarity at all in the second language. A novel
key-concept approach which dispenses with the need for parsing the question or the information
base.
A flexible question answering system has been developed using the above approach. The flexibility
of the system was demonstrated by applying it for a number of domains including the Tata Infotech
website, textual and database information from the Sahara Airlines database, train and ticket
information from the Indian Railways website, text book on management information systems and
e-book on physical fitness and more recently to extract information from Mumbai and Delhi Yellow
Pages databases.
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Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Translingual information retrieval technology is currently being applied for querying agricultural
information in Hindi. Several working systems have been implemented for extracting all the
relevant information from tender advertisements appearing in the newspapers and from CVs of
applicants to various advertised posts.
TCS Delhi
iLab, Applied Artificial Intelligence
Information provided by: C. Anantaram (c.anantaram@tcs.com)
Major focus areas of the group: Natural Language Interfaces (Natural Language Processing),
Multimodal reasoning for data-intensive domains, Rule-based reasoning
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Tata Consultancy Services Limited
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Tata Consultancy Services Limited
semantic transcoding depending on application needs. We are working towards building such an
environment. To distinguish it from the existing semantic web, which primarily addresses data in
textual form, we call it the Semantic Multimedia Web.
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Area-wise Index of Research groups
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Information Template for the Compilation
1) Name of Institution:
3) Your research group (if there is no explicit group, you can omit this question):
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Referral Sheet
Referral Sheet
If you know of any AI group[s] in India that is not represented in this compilation, please list their
contacts below and send it to sigai@cdacmumbai.in or to the address on the back cover of this
compilation.
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