I am a Ph.D. student (13CS91P03) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, since July 2013. My supervisor is Prof. Niloy Ganguly. I am a part of the Complex Network Research Group (CNeRG) at IIT Kharagpur. My basic interest lies in the study of Online Social Networks, Information Retrieval, Data Mining, AI for Social Good, Crisis Response.
I do not maintain this site at present. My current homepage is: Koustav Rudra
RESEARCH ABSTRACT [Back to top]
Online social networks (OSNs) like Twitter, Facebook etc. are currently important sources of information on the web. They are not only used to keep in touch with friends but also to gather information on various topics and current events. Especially, Twitter is increasingly being used to gather real time information on events happening "now", including disasters, emergency situations, political/social movements, and so on. In fact, recent research shows that Twitter reports same events as news media sites(e.g. Newswire), and even captures many minor events which are ignored by news providers. In particular, recent studies have shown the utility of online social media as a sentinel in emergency situations. During crisis events -- which include natural emergencies such as earthquakes, tsunami, cyclones as well as man-made emergencies such as bomb blasts and riots -- a lot of valuable information is available via online social media. However, all information obtained from OSNs are not trustworthy. Beside this, it is a challenge to extract important updates about an ongoing event (situational updates) from large volume of generic comments being posted. It is evident that utilizing OSNs during emergency situations involves several research challenges, some of which require further investigation than what has been done till now. There are additional challenges while dealing with disaster in third world countries like India where usage of OSNs is not so common. including scarcity of data, lack of updates by authoritative users, and so on. Hence, mechanisms to utilize OSNs during emergency situations in India need to be developed.
CONTACT ME [Back to top]
Email addresses: koustav [DOT] rudra [AT] cse [DOT] iitkgp [DOT] ernet [DOT] in
Book Chapter
Conferences
Manjira Sinha, Koustav Rudra, Tirthankar Dasgupta, Anupam Basu, paper on How Word Order Affects Sentence Comprehension in Bangla: A Computational Approach to Simple Sentence", Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8284, 2013, pp 769-779
Koustav Rudra, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Manav Sethi , Shreyasi Das, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh, paper on "#FewThingsAboutIdioms: Understanding Idioms and its Users in the Twitter Online Social Network", Pacific Asia Knowledge Data Discovery 2015 Vietnam, May 19-22
Koustav Rudra, Subham Ghosh, Niloy Ganguly, Pawan Goyal, Saptarshi Ghosh, paper on "Extracting Situational Information from Microblogs during Disaster Events: a Classification-Summarization Approach", 23rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2015 Melbourne, October 19-23
Koustav Rudra, Siddhartha Banerjee, Niloy Ganguly, Pawan Goyal, Muhammad Imran, Prasenjit Mitra, paper on "Summarizing Situational Tweets in Crisis Scenario", 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 2016 Halifax, Canada, July 10-13
Koustav Rudra, Ashish Sharma, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh, paper on "Characterizing communal microblogs during disaster events", The 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), San Francisco, CA, USA, August 18-21
Rafiya Begum, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, Koustav Rudra, Niloy Ganguly, paper on "Functions of Code-Switching in Tweets: An Annotation Scheme and Some Initial Experiments", The 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Slovenia, 23-28 May, 2016
Koustav Rudra, Shruti Rijhwani, Rafiya Begum, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, Niloy Ganguly, paper on "Understanding Language Preference for Expression of Opinion and Sentiment: What do Hindi-English Speakers do on Twitter?", Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Austin, Texas, USA, November 1–5, 2016
Koustav Rudra, Ashish Sharma, Niloy Ganguly, Muhammad Imran, paper on "Classifying Information from Microblogs during Epidemics", 7th ACM Digital Health Conference, 2017, London, July 2-5
Workshops
2. Prabhat Agarwal, Ashish Sharma, Jeenu Grover, Mayank Sikka, Koustav Rudra, Monojit Choudhury, paper on "I may talk in English but gaali toh Hindi mein hi denge : A study of English-Hindi Code-Switching and Swearing Pattern on Social Networks", Social Networking Workshop, Comsnets 2016, Bangalore, India, January 5-9
Date modified: July 11, 2017