An AI4BHARAT INITIATIVE
indicnlp.ai4bharat.org
A HUB FOR INDIC NLP RESOURCES, DATASETS AND TOOLS
Assistant Professor, IIT Madras
BTech from IIT Bombay, PhD from ETH Zurich
Worked at IBM research
DL consultant for startups
35 research papers, 18 patents
Assistant Professor, IIT Madras
PhD from IIT Bombay
Exp in teaching DL to industry and academia,
5 years exp at IBM research,
40+ research papers
Google Faculty Award, Young Faculty Recognition Award
Dr. Mitesh M. Khapra
Dr. Pratyush Kumar
Launched in Jul 2019: Working on several open-source projects of social importance in AI
Founding team (indicnlp.ai4bharat.org)
About Us
Senior Applied Researcher, Microsoft India,
PhD from IIT Bombay
Exp. in Machine Translation, Multilingual NLP, Building tools and resources for Indian NLP
2+ years experience at Microsoft Translator group
35+ research papers
Dr. Anoop Kunchukuttan
Philosophy
About Us
Harness AI for serving Bharat!
Curate: Curate datasets for Indian languages
Innovate: Create a common evaluation platform for tracking progress across multiple tasks in multiple languages
Build: Create an ecosystem of stakeholders to create and deploy solutions for the country at large
ai4bharat was founded with these exact goals!
Panel Discussion: Summary
The way forward
Step 1: Document under represented languages by building a catalog
Step 2: Develop input tools for creating content
https://indicnlp.ai4bharat.org/explorer/
https://transliterate.ai4bharat.org/
https://ezannotate.ai4bharat.org/
Step 3: Build models and evaluation benchmarks to track progress
https://indicnlp.ai4bharat.org/indic-bert
https://indicnlp.ai4bharat.org/indic-glue
Serving under represented languages
Build datasets, tools and models
Contact Us
Let's make India ready for the AI age
Anoop Kunchukuttan
Mitesh M. Khapra
Pratyush Kumar
anoop.kunchukuttan@gmail.com
miteshk@cse.iitm.ac.in
pratyush@cse.iitm.ac.in