Research Interests
My research interests broadly span two areas and more specifically their intersection: Computational linguistics and Complex Networks. I study language and related cognitive phenomena from the perspective of a dynamic and adaptive complex system. Complex network is a very promising and powerful tool in modeling complex systems, and hence, I model and study linguistic networks at various levels of linguistic organizations (e.g., sounds, words, meaning, and so on). Recently, I have been fascinated by the fact that web search queries are evolving and becoming more complex both syntactically and semantically; I am investigating their sturctural properties, which leads to me to believe that they represent an evolving protolanguage that will soon crystallize into a full-fledged language with its own structural properties.
I am also interested in computational linguistics and natural language processing for resource-poor languages, including unsupervised and semisupervised machine learning techniques for building tools, and innovative techniques for language resource creation.
2013
Rohan Ramanath, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali, and Rishiaj Saha Roy, Crowd Prefers the Middle Path: A New IAA Metric for Crowdsourcing Reveals Turker Biases in Query Segmentation, in Proceedings of ACL, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2013
2012
Rishiraj Saha Roy, Niloy Ganguly, Monojit Choudhury, and Srivatsan Laxman, An IR-based Evaluation Framework for Web Search Query Segmentation, in SIGIR 2012, ACM, August 2012
K Saravanan, Monojit Choudhury, Raghavendra Udupa, and A Kumaran, An Empirical Study of the Occurrence and Co-Occurrence of Named Entities in Natural Language Corpora, in In Proceedings of LREC 2012, European Language Resources Association, May 2012
2011
Umair Z Ahmed, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, and Sowmya V. B., Challenges in Designing Input Method Editors for Indian Languages: The Role of Word-Origin and Context, in Proceedings of IJCNLP Workshop on Advances in Text Input Methods , Association for Computational Linguistics, November 2011
Ravee Malla, Monojit Choudhury, and Kalika Bali, Web Search with Visual Clues: A User Study, in Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2011), HCIR, October 2011
Rishiraj Saha Roy, Niloy Ganguly, Monojit Choudhury, and Navin Kumar Singh, Complex Network Analysis Reveals Kernel-Periphery Structure in Web Search Queries, in Proceedings of the 2nd International ACM SIGIR (Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) Workshop on Query Representation and Understanding 2011 (QRU 2011), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., July 2011
Animesh Mukherjee, Monojit Choudhury, and Niloy Ganguly, Understanding how both the partitions of a bipartite network affect its one-mode projection, in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 390, no. 20, pp. 3602-3607, Elsevier, June 2011
Nitin Dua, Kanika Gupta, Monojit Choudhury, and Kalika Bali, Query Completion without Query Logs for Song Search , in Companion of World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2011, March 2011
Nikita Mishra, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Niloy Ganguly, Srivatsan Laxman, and Monojit Choudhury, Unsupervised query segmentation using only query logs, in Proceedings of the Twentieth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011), Companion Volume, Hyderabad, Mar 28-Apr 1, ACM, 2011
2010
Tirthankar Dasgupta, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali, and Anupam Basu, Mental Representation and Access of Polymorphic Words in Bangla: Evidence from Cross-modal Priming Experiments, in In Proceedings of ICON-2010, Kharagpur, India, December 2010
Current Activities:
We are organizing the Second Workshop on Advances in Text Input Methods (WTIM -2) in conjunction with Coling 2012. Submissions invited (Deadline: September 30th, 2012)
