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I am currently working as a research engineer for Lexical Computing Ltd., UK. I recently submitted my Masters thesis at University of York, UK.

My research interests are Lexical Semantics, Semantic Composition, Multiwords, Machine Learning, Word Sense Disambiguation/Induction, Lexical Acquisition, Web Corpora, Web as a Resource for NLP problems, Cross Language Resources, Syntactic Parsing, Question Answering Inference.

My collaborators are (alphabetical order) Bharat Ram Ambati, Dr. Albert Gatt, Abhilash Inumella, Dr. Adam Kilgarriff, Dr. Ioannis Klapaftis, Dr. Suresh Manandhar, Dr. Diana McCarthy, Dr. Jan Pomikálek, Dr. Mike Rosner, Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Dr. Serge Sharoff, Dr. Mark Stevenson.

I completed my Bachelors and Masters from IIIT Hyderabad. I was a member of Language Technology Research Centre, which is one of the largest NLP research groups in India.

I was a successful Google Summer of Code Student, 2009 and worked for Opencog organization.

Technical interests: linux administration, networking, open source and web technologies.

Other interests: badminton, swimming, cricket, volley ball, marathons and trekking.

Academic Activities

Reviewer of *SEM (star SEM): First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2012
Reviewer of Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering, 2012
Subreviewer of CICLing 2012
Subreviewer of MWE Workshop 2011
Programme Committee Member of YDS 2011
Organizer of 1st LTRC Symposium
Idea of Electronic Courier System in IIIT, Hyderabad.


Publications

2012

DSS: Text Similarity Using Lexical Alignments of Form, Distributional Semantics and Grammatical Relations. Diana McCarthy, Spandana Gella, Siva Reddy. In SemEval 2012

Word Sketches for Turkish. Bharat Ram Ambati, Siva Reddy, Adam Kilgarriff. In The Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012 Bibtex

2011

Dynamic and Static Prototype Vectors for Semantic Composition Siva Reddy, Ioannis Klapaftis, Diana McCarthy, Suresh Manandhar. In Proceedings of The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing 2011 (IJCNLP 2011), Chiang Mai, Thailand Bibtex IJCNLP Best Paper Award Slides

An Empirical Study on Compositionality in Compound Nouns Siva Reddy, Diana McCarthy, Suresh Manandhar. In Proceedings of The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing 2011 (IJCNLP 2011), Chiang Mai, Thailand Bibtex Slides Dataset

Cross Language POS Taggers (and other Tools) for Indian Languages: An Experiment with Kannada using Telugu Resources. Siva Reddy, Serge Sharoff. In Proceedings of IJCNLP workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access: Computational Linguistics and the Information Need of Multilingual Societies. (CLIA 2011 at IJNCLP 2011), Chiang Mai, Thailand Bibtex Slides Tagger

Exemplar-based Word-Space Model for Compositionality Detection: Shared task system description Siva Reddy, Diana McCarthy, Suresh Manandhar, Spandana Gella. In Proceedings of DISCo-2011 in conjunction with ACL 2011 Bibtex Slides
Our system was ranked first in two evaluation categories and second in two other evaluation categories.

2010

IIITH: Domain Specific Word Sense Disambiguation. Siva Reddy, Abhilash Inumella, Diana McCarthy, Mark Stevenson In SemEval-2010, ACL-2010, Sweden Download our resources Bibtex

WSD as a Distributed Constraint Optimization Problem. Siva Reddy, Abhilash Inumella. In The Student Research Workshop, ACL-2010, Sweden Bibtex

A corpus factory for many languages. Adam Kilgarriff, Siva Reddy, Jan Pomikálek, Avinesh PVS. In The Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Malta, May 2010 Acknowledgements: Diana McCarthy. Slides Bibtex

Hindi Sematic Category Labelling using semantic relatedness measures. Siva Reddy, Abhilash Inumella, Navjyoti Singh, Rajeev Sangal. To appear in The 5th International Conference of the Global WordNet Association, Mumbai, India, Jan 2010 Acknowledgements: Ted Pedersen

2009

All Words Unsupervised Semantic Category Labeling for Hindi. Siva Reddy, Abhilash Inumella, Rajeev Sangal, Soma Paul. In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Bulgaria, September, 2009

Corpus Factory. Adam Kilgarriff, Siva Reddy, Jan Pomikálek. In Proceedings of Asialex, Bangkok, Thailand, August, 2009 Slides
Please refer to our latest paper A corpus factory for many languages

Masters Thesis

Word Sense Disambiguation Using Semantic Categories, Domain Information and Knowledge Sources Siva Reddy, Masters Thesis, IIIT Hyderabad Slides

Tutorials

The Sketch Engine. Along with Adam Kilgarriff. In International Conference on Natural language processing ICON 2009, Hyderabad, India


Talks

Challenges and advances in Generative Distributional Models. University of Edinburgh, UK, May 22 2012. Host: Dr. Mirella Lapata

Text is fun: Statistical exploration of large corpora IIIT Hyderabad, India, May 14 2012.

Compositional Distributional Semantics: Pushing the boundaries. IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany, March 26 2012. Host: PD Dr. Sabine Schulte im Walde

Universal Sketch Grammar. 3rd Sketch Engine Workshop, March 2012, Brno, Czech Republic

The Eff ect of Polysemy in Compositional Semantics. University of Malta, Malta, October 31 2011, Host: Dr. Mike Rosner

Exemplar-based Word-Space Model for Compositionality Detection. Departmental talk at University of Leeds, UK, June 16 2011. Hosts: Dr. Katja Markert and Dr. Serge Sharoff

Word Sketches from Other Parsers: CONLL format in Sketch Engine. Sketch Engine Workshop, March 2011, Brighton, UK

Compositionality Detection using a Corpus Driven Approach: How to distinguish "couch potato" from "roast potato". Sketch Engine Workshop, March 2011, Brighton, UK

Compositionality Detection using Vector Space Model: How to distinguish "couch potato" from "roast potato" AIG Seminar, University of York, February, 2011

Think Tank vs Water Tank: Compositionality Detection using Vector Space Model. Research Student Seminar, University of York, January, 2011

Vector Space Models of Semantics w.r.t. Compositionality AIG Seminar, University of York, December, 2011

Corpus Factory, Lexicom Workshop, June 2010, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Part1: WSD for Telugu. Part2: Building Telugu Wordnet. LTRC Seminar, August, 2008.

Automatic Extraction of Selectional Constraints for Verb Frames in Hindi. In The Winter School of IJCNLP 2008, IIIT, Hyderabad, January 2008

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