Publication

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Semantic Parsing / Dialog

• Conversational Semantic Parsing using Dynamic Context Graphs
  Parag Jain, Mirella Lapata
  EMNLP 2023

• Semantic Parsing for Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs
  Laura Perez-Beltrachini, Parag Jain, Emilio Monti, Mirella Lapata
  EACL 2023 [Dataset and Code]

• Memory-Based Semantic Parsing
  Parag Jain, Mirella Lapata
  TACL 2021 -- [Video] [Code]

• Bootstrapping Chatbot Interfaces to Databases
  Ashish Mittal, Diptikalyan Saha, Parag Jain, Jaydeep Sen, Manasa Jammi, Karthik Sankaranarayanan
  8th ACM IKDD CODS and 26th COMAD, 2021

• Unified Semantic Parsing with Weak Supervision
  Priyanka Agrawal, Parag Jain, Ayushi Dalmia, Abhishek Bansal, Ashish Mittal, Karthik Sankaranarayanan
  ACL 2019 [Code]

• Creation and Interaction with Large-scale Domain-Specific Knowledge Bases
  Shreyas Bharadwaj et al. [and others, including Parag Jain]
  VLDB 2017 [Video]

Text generation

• Multi-Document Summarization with Centroid-Based Pretraining
  Ratish Puduppully, Parag Jain, Nancy F. Chen, Mark Steedman
  ACL 2023 [Code]

• Scalable Micro-planned Generation of Discourse from Structured Data
  Anirban Laha*, Parag Jain*, Abhijit Mishra, Karthik Sankaranarayanan
  Computational Linguistics Journal, 2019 -- [Code]

  ✨In news: Powering Match Insights for 🎾 US Open by interfacing with structured knowledge bases. TOI Gadgetsnow IBM Article

• A Mixed Hierarchical Attention based Encoder-Decoder Approach for Standard Table Summarization
  Parag Jain, Anirban Laha, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Preksha Nema, Mitesh M Khapra, Shreyas Shetty
  NAACL-HLT 2018 [Code]

• Generating Descriptions from Structured Data Using a Bifocal Attention Mechanism and Gated Orthogonalization
  Preksha Nema*, Shreyas Shetty*, Parag Jain*, Anirban Laha, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Mitesh M Khapra
  NAACL-HLT 2018 [Video] -- [Code]

• Story Generation from Sequence of Independent Short Descriptions
  Parag Jain, Priyanka Agrawal, Abhijit Mishra, Mohak Sukhwani, Anirban Laha, Karthik Sankaranarayanan
  SIGKDD Workshop on ML4Creativity, 2017

Controllable text generation

• Unsupervised Controllable Text Formalization
  Parag Jain, Abhijit Mishra, Amar Prakash Azad, Karthik Sankaranarayanan
  AAAI 2019 [Video] -- [Code]

• Unsupervised Neural Text Simplification
  Sai Surya, Abhijit Mishra, Anirban Laha, Parag Jain, Karthik Sankaranarayanan
  ACL 2019 [Code]

Machine Learning

• Online Active Metric Learning for Clustering
  Parag Jain, Vineeth N, Balasubramanian
  XRCI OPEN 2016 [Poster]

• Metric Learning for Clustering in Streaming Large-Scale Data
  Parag Jain,
  IIT Hyderabad, 2015 Thesis

• (Invited Talk) Conversational Semantic Parsing - Online International. Conference. On. Advances in Physical, Mathematical and Computational Sciences, India - 2022

• Storytelling from Structured Data and Knowledge Graphs : An NLG Perspective, Tutorial ACL 2019 [Website]

• Introduction to Machine Learning - Christ University Bangalore, 2018

• Generating Descriptions from Structured Data NAACL 2018 [Video]

• Talk on Online Metric learning (IBM Research Bangalore, 2016) [Slides]

• Tutor for Natural Language Understanding, Generation, and Machine Translation, University of Edinburgh (2020-2021)

• TA for Numerical Linear Algebra for Data Analysis (CS5270, 2015), IIT Hyderabad

• TA for Introduction to Database Management Systems (CS3010/CS3011, 2014), IIT Hyderabad

• TA for Advanced Compiler Design (CS6240, 2014), IIT Hyderabad