I am a Graduate Student at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. I am interested in automatic summarization and I work with Dr. Alexander I. Rudnicky.
Education:
PhD in Language Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008-MS in Language Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006-2008
BS in Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 2001-2005
Awards and Honors:
Award for best all-round performance in academics and extra-curricular activities (Dr. B.C. Roy Memorial Gold Medal). Class of 2005, IIT Kharagpur.Best Undergraduate Thesis, Computer Science and Engineering, Class of 2005, IIT Kharagpur.
Best Student Paper Award, ICON 2004.
Publications:
- Dipanjan Das, Datong Chen and Alexander G. Hauptmann. Improving Multimedia Retrieval with a Video OCR. To Appear in the Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE 19th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging (Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems II). Jan 28-31, 2008. San Jose, CA, USA. (PDF)
- Dipanjan Das, Mohit Kumar and Alexander I. Rudnicky. Automatic Extraction of Briefing Templates. To Appear in the Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2008). Jan 7-12, 2008. Hyderabad, India. (PDF)
- Mohit Kumar, Dipanjan Das and Alexander I. Rudnicky. Summarizing Non-Textual Events with 'Briefing' Focus. Proceedings of the Eighth RIAO International Conference on Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (RIAO 2007). May 30-Jun 1, 2007, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. (PDF)
- A. G. Hauptmann, M.-Y. Chen, M. Christel, D. Das, W.-H. Lin, R. Yan, J. Yang, G. Backfried and X. Wu. Multi-Lingual Broadcast News Retrieval. Carnegie Mellon University Notebook Paper, TRECVID 2006. (PDF)
- Jalal Mahmud, Yevgen Borodin, Dipanjan Das, and I.V. Ramakrishnan. Combating Information Overload in Non-Visual Web Access Using Context. Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2007). Jan 28-31, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii,USA. (PDF)
- Jalal Mahmud, Yevgen Borodin, Dipanjan Das, and I.V. Ramakrishnan. Improving Non-visual Web Access Using Context. Proceedings of the The Eighth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS 2006). Oct 23-25, 2006, Portland, Oregon,USA. (PDF)
- Dipanjan Das, Monojit Choudhury, Sudeshna Sarkar and Anupam Basu. An Affinity Based Greedy Approach towards Chunking for Indian Languages. Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Language Processing 2005 (ICON 2005). 18-20 December, 2005, Kanpur India. (PDF)
- Dipanjan Das and Monojit Choudhury. Finite State Models for Generation of Hindustani Classical Music. Proceedings of International Symposium on Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music 2005 (FRSM 05). 5-6 January 2005, Bhubaneswar, India. (PDF)
Unpublished:
- Dipanjan Das and André F.T. Martins. A Survey on Automatic Text Summarization. Literature Survey for the Language and Statistics II course at Carnegie Mellon University. November, 2007. (PDF)
- Dipanjan Das and Monojit Choudhury. Chunker and Shallow Parser for Free Word Order Languages: An Approach based on Valency Theory and Feature Structures. Presented at the Student Paper Competition of the International Conference on Natural Language Processing 2004 (ICON 2004). 19-22 December 2004, Hyderabad, India. (This paper won the Second Prize at the Competition. First Prize was not awarded.) (PDF)
Software:
Tool for creating Anonymized EmailsOther Details:
I happen to maintain the homepage of the BTechs and Dual degree MTechs of Class of 2005 and 2006 of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur.Other than trying to be a graduate student, I make efforts to sing this genre of music.
My hometown in India is Calcutta.