Manoj Chinnakotla

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

(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.

कायेन वाचा मनसेन्द्रियैर्वा ।

बुद्ध्यात्मना वा प्रकृतिस्वभावात् ।

करोमि यद्यत्सकलं परस्मै ।

नारायणयेति समर्पयामि ॥

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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, Cross Lingual IR and Multilingual NLP .

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E-Mail: firstname.lastname@gmail.com

Latest News

• Our research related to "Ruuh: A Deep Learning Based Conversational Social Agent" gets accepted as a demo in the prestigious NIPS 2018 Conference.
• Our research on "Retrieve and Re-rank: A Simple and Effective IR Approach to Simple Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs" gets accepts in EMNLP 2018.
  
• Read my recent blog post on "Code Mixed Question Answering" here.