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Fairness in NLP, Semantic Role Labeling, Paraphrase Detection
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Biography

Journal Reviewer:
1. Language Resources and Evaluation (LRE)
2. ACM-Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (ACM-TALLIP)
3. International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (IJICC)

(Recent) International Conference Activity:
1) PC Member - LREC-COLING 2024, Turin, Italy [May 2024]

(Past) Conference Committee Member:
1) PC in Ethics & NLP - EMNLP 2023, Singapore [Dec 2023]
2) PC Member in LT-EDI-2023 @ RANLP 2023, Bulgaria [September 2023]
3) PC Member: Ethics and NLP Track in ACL 2023 (https://2023.aclweb.org/) Toronto, Canada. [July 2023]
4) Reviewer - Track: Ethics and NLP @ COLING 2022, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. [Oct 2022]
5) PC Member in LateRAISSe @ LREC 2022, Marseille, France. [June 2022]
6) PC Member in LT-EDI-2022 @ ACL 2022, May 2022
7) PC Member in DravidianCodeMix @ FIRE-2021 [Dec 2021]
8) PC Member in LT-EDI-2021 @ EACL-2021 [Apr 2021]

Awards and Grants:
1. Recipient of the D&I Award for attending the EACL-2021 conference to present paper in the LT-EDI 2021 workshop.
2. Recipient of the Spring 2020 LDC Data Scholarship from Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), Philadelphia, USA for his research support.
3. Winner of IECSIL 2018 shared task organized by ARNEKT in conjunction with FIRE2018, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar.
4. Rated as the top 5% contributor by Google Translator Community for his contribution to Google Translate in Tamil and English as of Feb 2017.

Activities

Employment (3)

Velammal Institute of Technology: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN

2024-06-24 to present | Associate Professor (Information Technology)
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Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering: Chennai, IN

2022-07-01 to 2024-05-20 | Assistant Professor (Information Technology)
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Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering: Chennai, IN

2005-06-01 to 2022-06-30 | Assistant Professor (Computer Science & Engineering)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Anna University Chennai: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN

2016-02 to present | Ph.D. (Information and Communication Engineering)
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Anna University Chennai: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN

2003 to 2005 | M.E. (CSE) with First Class Distinction (Computer Science & Engineering)
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Professional activities (3)

Association for Computing Machinery: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN

2019 to present | Professional (Computer Science & Engineering)
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ARNEKT in conjuction with FIRE2018: DAIICT, Gandhinagar, IN

2018-12 | Winners of IECSIL 2018 Shared Task
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Anna University, Chennai: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN

2005-06 | M.E. First Class with Distinction (Computer Science & Engineering)
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Funding (1)

Spring 2020 LDC Data Scholarship

Grant
Linguistic Data Consortium (Philadelphia, US)
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Works (16)

NLP_Team1@SSN at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Impact of language models in Sentence-BERT for Semantic Textual Relatedness in Low-resource Languages

Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)
2024-06 | Conference paper
Contributors: Kumar, Senthil and Chandrabose, Aravindan and B, Gokulakrishnan and Tp, Karthikraja; Ojha, Atul Kr. and Doğruöz, A. Seza and Tayyar Madabushi, Harish and Da San Martino, Giovanni and Rosenthal, Sara and Rosá, Aiala
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Senthil Kumar B

SSNCSE_NLP@LT-EDI-ACL2022:Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion using sentence transformers

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
2022 | Conference paper
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Senthil Kumar B

Casteism in India, but Not Racism - a Study of Bias in Word Embeddings of Indian Languages

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technology and Resources for a Fair, Inclusive, and Safe Society within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
2022-06 | Conference paper
URI:

https://aclanthology.org/2022.lateraisse-1.1

Contributors: B, Senthil Kumar and Tiwari, Pranav and Kumar, Aman Chandra and Chandrabose, Aravindan
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PANDAS@TamilNLP-ACL2022: Emotion Analysis in Tamil Text using Language Agnostic Embeddings

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
2022-05 | Conference paper
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Senthil Kumar B

Transliterate or translate? Sentiment analysis of code-mixed text in Dravidian languages

FIRE 2021 Working Notes
2021-12 | Conference paper | Investigation
Contributors: Senthil Kumar B
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Senthil Kumar B

An Overview of Fairness in Data -- Illuminating the Bias in Data Pipeline

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
2021-04 | Conference paper
URI:

https://aclanthology.org/2021.ltedi-1.5

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ssn_diBERTsity@LT-EDI-EACL2021:Hope Speech Detection on multilingual YouTube comments via transformer based approach

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
2021-04 | Conference paper
URI:

https://aclanthology.org/2021.ltedi-1.12

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Senthil Kumar B

Tamil Paraphrase Detection Using Encoder-Decoder Neural Networks

Computational Intelligence in Data Science. ICCIDS 2020
2020-11-20 | Conference paper
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Senthil Kumar B

SSN-NLP@IDAT-FIRE-2019 : Irony detection in Arabic tweets using deep learning and features-based approaches

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2019 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-85076890819

Part of ISBN:

16130073

Contributors: Kayalvizhi, S.; Thenmozhi, D.; Senthil Kumar, B.; Aravindan, C.
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SSN_NLP at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Contextual Emotion Identification from Textual Conversation using Seq2Seq Deep Neural Network

Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
2019 | Conference paper
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Senthil Kumar B

SSN_NLP at SemEval-2019 Task 6: Offensive Language Identification in Social Media using Traditional and Deep Machine Learning Approaches

Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
2019 | Conference paper
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Tamil Paraphrase Detection using Long-Short Term Memory Networks

International Tamil Internet Conference - TIC2019
2019 | Conference paper
Part of ISSN: 2313-4887
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Application of Sequence to Sequence (Seq2Seq) Architecture in Language Processing Tasks

ACM 13th Inter-Research-Institute Student Seminar in Computer Science (ACM-IRISS2019)
2019-02-06 | Conference poster
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Senthil Kumar B

Deep learning approach to English-Tamil and Hindi-Tamil verb phrase translations

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2018 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-85058639244

Contributors: Thenmozhi, D.; Senthil Kumar, B.; Aravindan, C.
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Senthil Kumar B via Scopus - Elsevier

SSN_NLp@IECSIL-FIRE-2018: Deep learning approach to named entity recognition and relation extraction for conversational systems in Indian languages

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2018 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-85058656294

Contributors: Thenmozhi, D.; Senthil Kumar, B.; Aravindan, C.
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Named entity recognition in Dravidian languages – State of the art

International Journal of Applied Engineering Research
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84942434495

Contributors: Senthil Kumar, B.; Thenmozhi, D.
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Peer review (5 reviews for 4 publications/grants)

Review activity for ACM transactions on Asian and low-resource language information processing. (2)
Review activity for International journal of intelligent computing and cybernetics. (1)
Review activity for Language resources and evaluation. (1)
Review activity for Language resources and evaluation. (1)