Manoj Chinnakotla

Researcher in Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML)

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(Whatever I do) with my Body, Speech, Mind or Sense Organs.  (Whatever I do) using my Intellect, Feelings of Heart or (unconsciously) through the natural tendencies of my Mind, Whatever I do, I do all for others (i.e. without the sense of attachment to the results), (And) I Surrender them all at the Lotus Feet of Sri Narayana.

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• Industrial Keynote lecture on "The Neural Revolution: How Deep Learning in changing the landscape of Search and Relevance" in "NVidia Developer Connect" event on 20th Dec, 2017 at Hotel Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru.
• Invited Talk on "Leveraging Parallel and Multilingual Corpora for Multilingual NLP"in CUPRAL workshop of IJCNLP 2017 held in Taipei, Taiwan on 27th Nov, 2017.
• Received the "Greatness in Engineering Award" across the entire AI Core Organization of Microsoft for Q1 of FY'18
• Organizing a Shared Task on "Code Mixed Question Answering" in EMNLP/NIPS conferences along with Prof. Alan Blak, Khyathi Chandu and Prof. Eric Nyberg from LTI, CMU, USA.
• Delivering a talk on "The Neural Revolution in IR: From Search Engines to Conversational Agents"in TiE Hyderabad event at International School of Engineering (INSOFE), Hyderabad on 5th October, 2017.

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I am a Researcher in Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML).  I am currently working as a Senior Applied Scientist in the Artificial Intelligence and Research (AI & R) group of Microsoft, Hyderabad, India. I am also an Adjunct Faculty at IIIT Hyderabad, India.

My research interests are broadly in the areas of Question Answering, Web Relevance, Entity Mining, Natural Language Processing and Understanding.

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बुद्ध्यात्मना वा प्रकृतिस्वभावात् ।

करोमि यद्यत्सकलं परस्मै ।

नारायणयेति समर्पयामि ॥