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I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher on the European UnionsHorizon2020programme undergrant agreements 731015a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:elex.isEuropean a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:elex.isLexical Infrastructure (ELEXIS ) project, led by a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:john.mccr.aeindexDr. John P. McCrae , in the a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:datascienceinstitute.ieunitsuldUnit for Linguistic Data , a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:datascienceinstitute.ieData Science Institute , a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:www.nuigalway.ieindex.htmlNational University of Ireland, Galway .Since October 05th 2020, Ihave been also working as an adjunct lecturerat the a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.nuigalway.iescience-engineeringCollege of Science and Engineering, NUI Galway a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.nuigalway.iescience-engineering, Ireland. Before joining NUIG, I have worked as a a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:ufal.mff.cuni.czatul-kr-ojha-0Vdecký Pracovník (Postdoc Researcher) at a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:ufal.mff.cuni.czhome-pageUFAL, Charles University, Prague from July 2019 to June 2020. In 2017, I co-founded a startup named a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:panlingua.co.inPanlingua Language Services LLP situated inNew Delhi, India.I received my PhD in March2019 froma target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:jnu.ac.inJawaharlal Nehru University, India under the supervision of a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.jnu.ac.incontentgirishjhaProf. Girish Nath Jha . My PhD title was a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:arxiv.orgabs1905.02239English-Bhojpuri SMT System: Insights from the Kraka Model . I am actively working on the creation of linguistic resources for low-resource languages.During the PhD, I worked on various projects as Sr. NLP Research Engineer, Sr. Linguist cum Project Manager, and Linguist in Machine Translation Evaluation Platform and a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:sanskrit.jnu.ac.inprojectsilci.jsp?proj=ilciIndian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI) at a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:jnu.ac.inJawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi. I organised several workshopsconferencesshared tasks as co-chairorganiser or manager including: a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:sites.google.comviewloresmt4th Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2021) undera target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:amtaweb.orgMT Summit 2021 a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:sites.google.comviewloresmtloresmt-20203rd LoResMT 2020 workshop and 2nd LoResMT shared task 2020 under a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:aacl2020.orgAACL-IJCNLP 2020 a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:sites.google.comviewtrac2homeSecond a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:sites.google.comviewtrac2homeWorkshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC-2020) under the a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:lrec2020.lrec-conf.orgenLREC 2020 a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:sanskrit.jnu.ac.inconfwildre5index.jsp5th Workshop on Indian Language Data Resource and Evaluation (WILDRE-5) under the a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:lrec2020.lrec-conf.orgenLREC 2020 Shared Task on Low-level NLP Tools for a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:nsurl.orgtaskstask-10-low-level-nlp-tools-for-bhojpuri-languageBhojpuri and a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:nsurl.orgtaskstask-9-low-level-nlp-tools-for-magahi-languageMagahi under thea target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:nsurl.orgNSURL 2019 a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:sites.google.comviewloresmtloresmt-20192nd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2019) under the a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.mtsummit2019.comMT Summit XVII 2019 a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:sanskrit.jnu.ac.inconfsoiltech1index.jspFirst International Sanskrit and Other Indian Languages Conference 2019 at JNU, New Delhi, India a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:sites.google.comviewtrac1homeFirst Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC-2018) under the a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:coling2018.orgCOLING 2018 a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:sanskrit.jnu.ac.inconfwildre4index.jsp4th Workshop on Indian Language Data Resource and Evaluation (WILDRE-4) under the a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:lrec2018.lrec-conf.orgenLREC 2018 a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:sanskrit.jnu.ac.inconfwildre3index.jsp3rd Workshop on Indian Language Data Resource and Evaluation (WILDRE-3) under the a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:lrec2016.lrec-conf.orgenLREC 2016 Github:a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:github.comshashwatup9kshashwatup9k Google Scholar: a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:scholar.google.comcitations?user=nY_o0hMAAAAJ amp;hl=enAtul Kr. Ojha ORCID:a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:orcid.org0000-0002-9800-98330000-0002-9800-9833 Linkedin: a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.linkedin.cominatul-kr-ojha-59b02651Atul Kr. Ojha Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Research Interests
Statistical and neural machine translation (especially for low-resource languages) Corpus Mining Lexical Induction Dependency Parsing Hate and Aggressive Speech NLP and Machine Learning
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, M.Phil, M.A.. B.A.
External positions
Postdoc ResearcherPart-time (November 2020 to Jan 2021), ADAPT Center
Accepting PhD Students
- Accepting PhD Students
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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SDG 5 Gender Equality
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Investigating transformer models for textual bias detection in model, data, and dataspace cards
Donald, A., Galanopoulos, A., Ojha, A. K., Curry, E., Muñoz, E., Ullah, I., McCrae, J. P., Kalra, M., Saxena, S. & Iqbal, T., 2026, In: AI and Ethics. 6, 1, p. 118 1 p.Research output: Contribution to a Journal (Peer & Non Peer) › Article › peer-review
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Towards Temporal Knowledge-Base Creation for Fine-Grained Opinion Analysis with Language Models
Negi, G., Ojha, A. K., Zayed, O. & Buitelaar, P., 2025, In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 4041Research output: Contribution to a Journal (Peer & Non Peer) › Conference article › peer-review
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Findings of the SIGTYP 2024 Shared Task on Word Embedding Evaluation for Ancient and Historical Languages
Dereza, O., Doyle, A., Rani, P., Ojha, A. K., Moran, P. & Mc Crae, J., Mar 2024, Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP. Hahn, M., Sorokin, A., Kumar, R., Shcherbakov, A., Otmakhova, Y., Yang, J., Serikov, O., Rani, P., Ponti, E. M., Muradoğlu, S., Gao, R., Cotterell, R. & Vylomova, E. (eds.). Malta: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 160-172 13 p. 19. (SIGTYP 2024 - 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop).Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Conference Publication › peer-review
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Findings of the WILDRE Shared Task on Code-mixed Less-resourced Sentiment Analysis for Indo-Aryan Languages
Rani, P., Negi, G., Jha, S. K., Suryawanshi, S., Ojha, A. K., Buitelaar, P. & McCrae, J. P., 2024, 7th Workshop on Indian Language Data Resource and Evaluation, WILDRE 2024 at LREC-COLING 2024 - Workshop Proceedings. Jha, G. N., Devi, S. L., Bali, K. & Ojha, A. K. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 17-23 7 p. (7th Workshop on Indian Language Data Resource and Evaluation, WILDRE 2024 at LREC-COLING 2024 - Workshop Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Conference Publication › peer-review
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Findings of the WILDRE Shared Task on Code-mixed Less-resourced Sentiment Analysis for Indo-Aryan Languages
Rani, P., Negi, G., Jha, S. K., Suryawanshi, S., Ojha, A. K., Buitelaar, P. & McCrae, J. P., 2024, 7th Workshop on Indian Language Data Resource and Evaluation at LREC-COLING-2024, WILDRE 2024 - Workshop Proceedings. Jha, G. N., Devi, S. L., Bali, K., Ojha, A. K. & Ojha, A. K. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 17-23 7 p. (Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING).Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Conference Publication › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus)
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Lang Resour Eval (Journal)
Ojha, A. K. (Reviewer)
1 Sep 2015 → 1 Mar 2020Activity: Reviews and editorial work › Reviews and Editorial work
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Artif Intell (Journal)
Ojha, A. K. (Reviewer)
1 Sep 2015 → 14 Oct 2020Activity: Reviews and editorial work › Reviews and Editorial work
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Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (Journal)
Ojha, A. K. (Reviewer)
17 Mar 2015 → 15 Feb 2020Activity: Reviews and editorial work › Reviews and Editorial work
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Mach Transl (Journal)
Ojha, A. K. (Reviewer)
3 Mar 2013 → 1 Mar 2020Activity: Reviews and editorial work › Reviews and Editorial work
Prizes
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Google scholarship for attending the Lisbon Machine Learning School 2018
Ojha, A. K. (Recipient), Jun 2018
Prize: Honorary award
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Heyning-Roelli fellowship to participate as an exchange student from Feb-July 2017 at University of Zürich, Switzerland
Ojha, A. K. (Recipient), Feb 2017
Prize: Honorary award
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