Projects

A collection of projects.

With Industry Support

  1. Sevak- An Intelligent Indian Language Chatbot, Sponsored by Imprint2A, SERB, Govt of India and in collaboration with Wipro, Value: INR 98 Lacs ($140473.20) (completed)- (Relevant to the proposed project. Here the target is to build a Chatbot in English, Indian languages, and Code-mixed Languages in three important domains like Railways, Judiciary and Healthcare)
  2. Conversational Agents with Negotiation and Influencing ability, Sponsored by Accenture, Value: 56 Lakhs ($ 67396.50)- Ongoing (Relevant to the project. The objective of this project is to build a dialogue agent that can persuade, negotiate and/or influence the users to perform certain tasks).
  3. Percuro-A Holistic Solution for Clinical Text Mining, Sponsored by Wipro Ltd, Value: INR 39 Lakhs ($53042.38) [only for IIT Patna] (Consortium partner: University of South Carolina, USA) (ongoing) (This is relevant to the project. The target is to build question answering system with knowledge graph for the medical domain)
  4. Knowledge Grounded Conversational System, Sponsored by Accenture, India, Value: 2232375.00 ($30000) (completed) (This is relevant to the proposed project. It aimed at integrating external common sense knowledge to improve the quality of dialogue generation)
  5. Dynamic Knowledge Natural Language Generation, Sponsored by Samsung Research, Value: 18 Lacs ($24191) (ongoing) (This is a relevant project. This project aimed at integrating external unstructured knowledge for dialogue generation)
  6. HELIOS - Hate, Hyperpartisan, and Hyperpluralism Elicitation and Observer System, Sponsored by Wipro Ltd, India, Value: INR 42 Lacs ($55229) [only for IIT Patna] (Ongoing) (Consortium partners: UT Austin, USA; and IIIT Delhi, India) (The aim is to develop hate speech detection, hate speech monitoring and fake news detection)
  7. Product Review and Conversation Machine Translation, Sponsored by Flipkart, India, Value: 36 Lacs ($28221.04) (ongoing) (The aim is to develop Machine Translation systems from English to Indian languages)
  8. ATL IIT AI Lab (QA, Dialogue Systems), Sponsored by Accenture Pvt. Limited, Value: Rs. 65 Lac ($ 90146.00 ) (Completed) (Research on QA and Virtual agents)
  9. Centre of Excellence for Natural Language Processing-IITP, Sponsored by Elsevier, Value: Rs. 213 Lacs ($ 295403.00) (Completed) (AI, ML and NLP for scholarly document understanding).
  10. R&D Projects, Shusrut: ezDI Research Lab on Health Informatics-IITP, Sponsored by ezDI, Value: Rs.145 Lacs ($ 201096.00) (Completed) (Clinical Text Mining and Information Extraction from Patient records)
  11. Research on Sentiment Analysis and Image Recognition, Skymap Global Pvt. Limited, Value: 51 Lacs ($70730.00) (2018-2020) (Completed) (Research on Sentiment Recognition and Image Processing)
  12. Multimodal Input Text Summarization, LG Soft, Outlay: 15.5 Lakhs (Completed) (Research on text summarization where the input are text, tables, and figures)
  13. Restaurant Recommendation, LG Soft, Outlay: 15.3 Lakhs (Completed) (Building restaurant recommendation using NLP and Deep Learning techniques)

Other Projects

  1. An Empathetic Knowledge Grounded Conversational System for Mental Health Counseling and Legal Assistance, Sponsored by IHUB Anubhuti, TIH, IIIT Delhi, Value: 30 Lacs ($40802) (ongoing) (Role: PI) (Relevant to the project. The objective of this project is to build a dialogue agent to assist the victims for mental health counseling and legal assistance. Important attributes such as empathy and politeness are being incorporated).
  2. Vidyaapati: A System for Bidirectional Machine Translation Involving Bengali, Konkani, Maithili, Marathi and Hindi, NLTM, MeiTY, Govt of India, Value: 120.77 Lakhs ($159038.26)-Ongoing
  3. Bhashini: Indian Language to Indian Language Machine Translation System, Sponsored by NLTM, Meity, Govt of India, Value: 24.36 Lakhs ($31603.50) -Ongoing
  4. IITP Centre of Excellence in Cyber Crime Prevention against Women and Children- AI based Tools for Women and Children Safety, Sponsored by MHA, Govt of India, 284 Lakhs ($2113230459.69)- With other faculty members of IIT Patna (Completed)
  5. Information Retrieval via Knowledge Graphs Developed for Aircraft Accidents Database and Aircraft Manuals, Sponsored by Imprint2A, SERB, Govt of India, Value: INR 54 Lacs ($73443)- (Completed)
  6. Speech to Speech Machine Translation, Sponsored by PSA, Govt of India, Value: INR 13 Lacs ($17680)-(Completed)
  7. Centre of Excellence for Natural Language Processing-IITP, Sponsored by Elsevier, Value: Rs. 213 Lacs ($ 295403.00) (Completed)
  8. A Platform for Cross-lingual and Multilingual Event Monitoring in Indian Languages, Imprint-1, MHRD and MeiTY, Govt. of India, Outlay: 85 Lacs ($117883.00)-Completed
  9. Sentiment, Emotion, Sarcasm and Hate Speech Detection (SESH), Sponsored by CDOT, Value: 42 Lacs (Ongoing)
  10. Hindi to English Machine Aided Translation in Judicial Domain, TDIL, MeiTY, Govt. of India - Consortium of 4 institutes, Value: 204 Lacs ($ 282920.00 ) -(Completed)
  11. CDAC-IIT Patna Digital Forensic Center with Artificial Intelligence based Knowledge Support Tools, Meity, Govt. of India; and Govt. of Bihar, Rs. 400 Lacs ($ 554746.00) (IIT Patna + CDAC Kolkata (Completed)
  12. Development of Automated Tools using Machine Learning and Soft Computing for Information Extraction from Biomedical Domains- Centre for Advanced System Engineering, IIT PATNA- Rs. 590,000.00 Lac (Completed)
  13. Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology, Australia-India Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology, Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF)- 2012 with Macquarie University, Australia and IIT Bombay (completed)- Rs. 482,000.00 Lac (completed)