Multilingual Event Monitoring

IMPRINT funded prroject

Research positions under
IMPRINT program of MHRD.
Project Title: A Platform for Crosslingual and Multilingual Event Monitoring in Indian Languages

Project Description: The project aims to build a cross-lingual, multi-lingual, multi-source and multi-domain platform for information extraction in Indian languages to extract and classify events of interest from news media and to demonstrate the application in a few domains. A pluggable and customizable platform will be developed, enabled for English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Tamil to monitor news events around a few themes such as disaster, conflict events and health. The output will be presented in multiple languages as well as a suitable visualization interface supported by analytics. The system will be extendible to monitor other sources like social media.

Project Positions

We are looking for exceptional candidates, who are highly motivated to pursue research in the field of Natural Language Processing and Text Mining.
Principal Investigators: Sudeshna Sarkar, Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur

Coordinating Institute: IIT Kharagpur
Partner Institutes:
IIT Patna, IIT Bombay, Anna University (KBC), DAIICT