Dr. Abhik Jana Assistant Professor
School of Electrical Sciences

Research Interests

 Natural Language Processing ; Cognitive Science

Contact Details

  • B 204, School of Electrical Sciences
  • abhikjana@iitbbs.ac.in

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Education

 Degree Discipline Year School
  Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering 2019 IIT Kharagpur
  M.Tech Computer Science and Engineering 2013 IIT Kharagpur
  B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering 2011 IEM, Kolkata
 

Biosketch

Prior to joining here, he was a research associate at Universität Hamburg, working with Professor Dr. Chris Biemann. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kgp), under the supervision of Professor Dr. Pawan Goyal. He completed his Master of Technology degree at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kgp), India under the supervision of Professor Dr. Anupam Basu. He did his Bachelor of Technology degree at the Department of Computer Science and Egineering in Insitute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata.
 
 
 
 

Teaching

  • Natural Language Processing (CS6L027), Spring 2024.
  • Data Structures (CS2L004), Autumn 2023.
  • Data Structure Laboratory (CS2P002), Autumn 2023.
  • Introduction to Programming and Data Structures (CS1L001), Autumn 2023.
  • Introduction to Programming and Data Structure Laboratory (CS1P001), Spring 2023.
  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms (CS2L002), Spring 2023.
  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms Laboratory (CS2P001), Spring 2023.
  • Statistical Methods for Language Technology, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Spring 2022.
  • NLP And The Web, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Autumn 2021.
  • NLP And The Web, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Autumn 2020.

 

Recent Publications (International Journals)

1Abhik Jana, Gopalakrishnan Venkatesh, Seid Muhie Yimam, and Chris Biemann, Hypernymy Detection for Low-Resource Languages: A Study for Hindi, Bengali, and Amharic, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, 21(4): pp 1–21, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1145/3490389.
2Abhik Jana, Siddhant Haldar, and Pawan Goyal, Network Embeddings from Distributional Thesauri for Improving Static Word Representations, Expert Systems with Applications 187: 115868, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115868.
3Abhik Jana, Animesh Mukherjee, and Pawan Goyal, Network measures: A new paradigm towards reliable novel word sense detection., Information Processing & Management 57(6): 102173, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102173.
4Manjira Sinha, Tirthankar Dasgupta, Abhik Jana, Anupam Basu, Design and Development of a Bangla Semantic Lexicon and Semantic Similarity Measure, in International Journal of Computer Applications 95(5): 8-16, 2014, https://doi.org/10.5120/16588-6297.

Conferences (International)

1Sushil Awale, and Abhik Jana, Enriching Hindi WordNet Using Knowledge Graph Completion Approach, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI), pp. 81-85, 2022.
2Sree Bhattacharyya, and Abhik Jana, Towards Bengali WordNet Enrichment using Knowledge Graph Completion Techniques, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI), pp. 75-80, 2022.
3Ilias Chalkidis, Abhik Jana, Dirk Hartung, Michael James Bommarito, Ion Androutsopoulos, Daniel Martin Katz, and Nikolaos Aletras, LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English, In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 4310-4330, 2022.
4Gopalakrishnan Venkatesh, Abhik Jana, Steffen Remus, Ozge Sevgili, Gopalakrishnan ¨ Srinivasaraghavan, and Chris Biemann Using Distributional Thesaurus To Enhance Transformerbased Contextualized Representations for Low Resource Languages, In Proceedings of the 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 845-852. 2022.
5Anirban Bhowmick, and Abhik Jana, Sentiment Analysis For Bengali Using Transformer Based Models, In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pp. 481-486. 2021.
6Abhik Jana, and Chris Biemann, An Investigation towards Differentially Private Sequence Tagging in a Federated Framework, In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing (PrivateNLP co-located with NAACL 2021), pp. 30-35. 2021.
7Timo Johner, Abhik Jana, and Chris Biemann, Error Analysis of using BART for Multi-Document Summarization: A Study for English and German Language, In Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), pp. 391-397. 2021.
8Abhik Jana, Nikhil Reddy Varimalla, and Pawan Goyal, Using Distributional Thesaurus Embedding for Co-hyponymy Detection., In Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), pp. 5766-5771. 2020.
9Soumya Sharma, Bishal Santra, Abhik Jana, Santosh Tokala, Niloy Ganguly and Pawan Goyal, Incorporating Domain Knowledge into Medical NLI using Knowledge Graphs, In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pp. 6094-6099. 2019.
10Abhik Jana, Dmitry Puzyrev, Alexander Panchenko, Pawan Goyal, Chris Biemann and Animesh Mukherjee, On the Compositionality Prediction of Noun Phrases using Poincar´e Embeddings, In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 3263-3274, 2019.
11Abhik Jana, Animesh Mukherjee and Pawan Goyal, Detecting Reliable Novel Word Senses: A Network-Centric Approach, In Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 976-983, 2019.
12Abhik Jana, Pranjal Kanojiya, Pawan Goyal and Animesh Mukherjee, WikiRef: Wikilinks as a route to recommending appropriate references for scientific Wikipedia pages, In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pp. 379-389, 2018.
13Abhik Jana and Pawan Goyal, Can Network Embedding of Distributional Thesaurus be Combined with Word Vectors for Better Representation?, In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT), Volume 1 (Long Papers), vol. 1, pp. 463-473, 2018.
14Abhik Jana and Pawan Goyal, Network Features Based Co-hyponymy Detection, In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 39-44, 2018.
15Abhik Jana, Sruthi Mooriyath, Animesh Mukherjee and Pawan Goyal, WikiM: Metapaths based Wikification of Scientific Abstracts, In Proceedings of the 17th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), pp. 21-30, IEEE Press, 2017.
16 Manjira Sinha, Abhik Jana, Tirthankar Dasgupta, Anupam Basu, A New Semantic Lexicon and Similarity Measure in Bangla, in Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-III), pp. 171-182, COLING 2012.
17Mainak Biswas, Abhik Jana, Rajib Paul, Himadri Nath Saha, A Secure Routing Protocol Based on Fidelity, in International Conference on Scientific Paradigm Shift In Information Technology and Management, Kolkata, January 2011.
 

Academic Honors & Awards

  • Selected for Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2020-21
  • Microsoft Research India Travel Grant for attending ACL 2019
  • ACM SIGAPP 2019 Student Travel Grant for attending ACM SAC 2019.
  • CoDS-COMAD 2019 Student Travel Grant for attending CODS-COMAD 2019
  • ACM India-IARCS Travel Grant for attending COLING 2018
  • Microsoft Research India Travel Grant for attending COLING 2018
  • Flipkart India Travel Grant for attending NAACL 2018.
  • SIGIR Student Travel Grant for attending JCDL 2017.
  • CTO Innovation Award FY14 (NetAPP India Private Limited)
  • TCS Best Student Project Award (for B.Tech Thesis)
 

Research Scholar

  1.  Ritwik Raghav (Ph.D. Scholar,  since Autumn 2023)
  2.  Manmohan Mahapatra (MS Scholar, since Spring 2024)
 
 

Professional Experience

  Member of Technical Staff II (Research), Advanced Technology Group, NetApp India Private Limited, India. (July 2013- July 2014)

Professional Activities

• Served as Reviewer for ACL 2019-20-21, EMNLP 2020-21, CoNLL 2019-20-21, NAACL 2019-20, LREC 2020-22. 
• Co-organizer of TextGraphs 2020, 2021, 2022. 
• Part of Organizing team of ACL 2019 held at Florence, Italy as student volunteer.
• Part of Organizing team of a workshop on ‘Machine Learning for Cyber Physical Systems’ held at IIT Kharagpur, September 2018 as instructor for programming session.
• Organized International Conference on the Networked Digital Earth (ICNDE) at IIT Kharagpur, March 2018 as student volunteer.
• Organized Workshop on Complex and Social Networks at IIT Kharagpur, March 2017 as student volunteer.
• Organized short-term school and workshop on Machine Learning and Complex Network at IIT Kharagpur, Feb 2015 as student volunteer.
 
 
 

Extra curricular activities

  1. A sports lover (Cricket, Football, Badminton, Table Tennis, Lawn Tennis)
  2. Love to do adventure activities like trekking, river rafting, hiking. 
  3. Here are some glimpses of those activities.

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