Dr. Asif Ekbal

Associate Professor
Room No-410, Block-3
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
IIT Patna
Phone: +91-6115-233-8090 (Office) & +91-8521274830 (Mobile)
Email: asif@iitp.ac.in & asif.ekbal@gmail.com

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. -- Howard Aiken

Book Chapters

2009
2A. Ekbal, S. Naskar and S. Bandyopadhyay (2009). Named Entity Recognition and Transliteration in Bengali. In Benjamins Current Topics, ISBN 978 90 272 Sekine, Satoshi and Elisabete Ranchhod (eds.), pp. 97-116.
2007
1A. Ekbal, S. Bandyopadhyay and A. Das (2007). Three Different Models for Named Entity Recognition in Bengali. Advances in Pattern Recognition Series, Springer, 161-170.

Books

2013
1Co-editor of the book titled “Emerging Applications of Natural Language Processing: Concepts and New Research”, IGI Global; Editors: Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Asif Ekbal (2013).

Workshop Publication

2019
19Baban Gain, Dibyanayan Bandyopadhyay, Tanik Saikh, and Asif Ekbal, "IITP@COLIEE 2019: Legal Information Retrieval using BM25 and BERT", in Proceedings of the 6th Competition on Legal Information Extraction/Entailment (COL-IEE'2019).
18Dibyanayan Bandyopadhyay, Baban Gain, Tanik Saikh, and Asif Ekbal, "IITP at MEDIQA 2019: Systems report for natural language inference, question entailment and question answering", in Proceedings of the BioNLP 2019 workshop, Florence, Italy, August 1, 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics.
2018
17Arjun Roy, Prashant Kapil, Kingshuk Basak, Asif Ekbal, " An ensemble approach for aggression identification in english and hindi text", in Workshop at Coling 2018 (TRAC-1), 2018..
16Tirthankar Ghosal, Ravi Sonam, Sriparna Saha, Asif Ekbal and Pushpak Bhattacharyya, "Investigating Domain Features For Scope Detection and Classification of Scientific Articles", in WOSP, 2018..
2017
15Md Shad Akhtar, Palaash Sawant, Asif Ekbal, Jyoti Pawar, Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2017). IITP at EmoInt-2017: Measuring Intensity of Emotions using Sentence Embeddings and Optimized Features. In Proceedings of the EMNLP 2017 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, and Social Media (WASSA), September 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark. (Accepted).
14Sabyasachi Kamila, Mohammad Hasanuzzaman, Asif Ekbal and Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2018). Tempo-HindiWordNet: A Lexical Knowledge-base for Temporal Information Processing, ACM TALLIP 2018.
13Depanway Ghosal, Shobhit Bhatnagar, Md Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2017). IITP at SemEval-2017 Task 5: An Ensemble of Regression Algorithms with Effective Features for Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis in Financial Domain. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2017), Vancouver, Canada, August 3 - 4, 2017, pages 899–903.
12Abhishek Kumar, Abhishek Sethi, Md Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2017). IITP at SemEval-2017 Task 5: Sentiment Prediction in Financial Text. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2017 Vancouver, Canada, August 3 - 4, 2017, pages 894–898.
11TVikram Singh, Sunny Narayan, Md Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2017). IITPB at SemEval-2017 Task 8 : A Supervised Approach for Rumour Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2017 Vancouver, Canada, August 3 - 4, 2017, pages 488–492.
2016
10Sukanta Sen, Debajyoty Banik, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IITP English-Hindi Machine Translation System at WAT 2016, In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2016), 2016.
9GIAN Workshop, Introduction to Natural Language Processing", May 2-8, 2016 (foreign expert: Prof. Sadao Kurohashi, Kyoto University, Japan).
8GIAN Workshop, Cognitive Science for Computational Linguists", December 8-14, 2016 (foreign expert: Prof. Massimo Poesio, University of Essex, United Kingdom)
7GIAN Workshop, Multiobjective Optimization, December 15-22, 2016 (foreign expert: Prof. Carlos A. Coello Coello, Mexico)
2013
6A. Ekbal, S. Saha and S. Girdhar (2013). Evolutionary Approach for Classifier Ensemble: An Application to Bio-molecular Event Extraction. In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Volume 182, 2013, Pages 9-15..
5S. Saha, A. Ekbal, S. Sharma, S. Bandyopadhyay and U. Maulik (2013). Protein Secondary Structure Prediction using Machine Learning. In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Volume 182, 2013, Pages 57-63.
2010
4A. Ekbal, S. Saha and C. S. Garbe (2010). Multiobjective Optimization Approach for Named Entity Recognition. PRICAI 2010: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, LNCS.
2009
3A. Ekbal and S. Bandyopadhyay (2009). Improving the Performance of a NER System by Post-processing, Context Patterns and Voting. W. Li and D. Molla-Aliod (Eds): ICCPOL 2009, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).
2D. Das, A. Ekbal and S. Bandyopadhyay (2009). Acquiring Verb Subcategorization Frames in Bengali from Corpora. W. Li and D. Molla-Aliod (Eds): ICCPOL 2009, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).
2006
1S. Bandyopadhyay, T. Mondal, S. K. Naskar, A. Ekbal, R. Haque and Srinivasa R. Godavarthy (2006). Bengali, Hindi and Telugu to English Ad-hoc Bilingual Task at CLEF 2007. Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval, Vol. 5342/2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.