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Niket Tandon
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Department 5: Databases and Information Systems
Campus E1 4, Room 428
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
Email: ntandon[AT]mpi-inf.mpg.de
I am a research scientist at Allen AI, Seattle. I completed my PhD at the Databases group in MPI, August 2016. My work revolves around Information Extraction, NLP and Machine Learning with a focus on construction of a Commonsense Knowledge Base which is aware of the facts like sizeOf(flower,small) and hasEmotion(hug, relief).
I founded PQRS Research to enable undergrad CS students from developing nations get research exposure. In PQRS, we work on AI projects. My vision is a community driven research mentorship network that does meaningful research and trains the undergrad CS students. Under the ambit of PQRS, I organized a 3-day tutorial workshop on AI and the Web which was very well received.
Webchild Commonsense Browser
Take a look at the commonsense browser here
- Artificial Intelligence, in particular Commonsense Knowledge Acquisition and applications
- Natural Language Processing
- Information Extraction
- Information Retrieval
- WebChild 2.0: Fine-Grained Commonsense Knowledge Distillation
Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum
In: ACL 2017.
- Domain-Targeted, High Precision Knowledge Extraction
Bhavana Dalvi, Niket Tandon, Peter Clark
In: TACL 2017. [PDF]
- Distilling Task Knowledge from How-To Communities
Cuong Xuan Chu, Niket Tandon, Gerhard Weikum
In: WWW 2017. [PDF] [Slides powerpoint] [Slides pdf]
- (Ph.D. thesis) Commonsense Knowledge Acquisition and Applications
Niket Tandon
[PDF] [Slides powerpoint] [Slides pdf]
- Seeing is Believing: The Quest for Multimodal Knowledge
Gerard de Melo, Niket Tandon
In: Proc. SIGWEB, Spring 2016. [PDF]
- Know2Look: Commonsense Knowledge for Visual Search
Sreyasi Nag Chowdhury, Niket Tandon, Gerhard Weikum
In: AKBC Workshop 2016 . [PDF]
- Commonsense in Parts: Mining Part-Whole Relations from the Web and Image Tags
Niket Tandon, Charles Hariman, Jacopo Urbani, Gerhard Weikum, Anna Rohrbach, Marcus Rohrbach
In: Proc. AAAI 2016. [PDF] [slides pptx][slides pdf]
- Word Representations from Large-Scale Commonsense Knowledge
Jiaqiang Chen, Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo
In: Proc. WI 2015. [PDF]
- Mining Activity Commonsense Knowledge from Hollywood Narratives
Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Abir De, Gerhard Weikum
In: Proc. CIKM 2015. [PDF] [slides pptx] [slides pdf]
- A Dataset for Movie Description
Anna Rohrbach, Marcus Rohrbach, Niket Tandon, Bernt Schiele
In: Proc. CVPR 2015. [PDF]
- A proposal of the marriage of Encyclopedic and Commonsense Knowledge
Dheeraj Rajagopal, Niket Tandon
In: Proc. CMU LTI-SRS symposium 2015. [PDF]
- Perceptually Grounded Selectional Preferences
Ekaterina Shutova, Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo
In: Proc. ACL 2015. [PDF]
- Knowledge Extraction from Movie Scripts
Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Abir De, Gerhard Weikum
In: Proc. WWW 2015. [PDF]
- Multimedia Data for the Visually Impaired
Niket Tandon, Shekhar Sharma, Tanima Makkad
In: Proc. AAAI 2015, student abstracts. [PDF]
- Smarter Than You Think: Acquiring Comparative Commonsense from the Web
Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2014)
Accepted: AAAI 2014, Canada. [PDF]
[slides pptx] [slides pdf]
- WebChild: Harvesting and Organizing Commonsense Knowledge from the Web
Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Fabian Suchanek, Gerhard Weikum (2014)
In: Proc. ACM WSDM 2014, New York City, USA.
[PDF]
[slides pptx] [slides pdf]
Acceptance rate: 18%.
- Markov Chains for Robust Graph-based Commonsense Information Extraction
Niket Tandon, Dheeraj Rajagopal, Gerard de Melo (demo paper, 2012)
In: Proc. COLING 2012. [PDF]
- Citation Context Sentiment Analysis for Structured Summarization of Research Papers
Niket Tandon, Ashish Jain (short paper, 2012)
In: Proc. KI 2012. [PDF]
- (Masters thesis) Deriving a Web-Scale Common Sense Fact Knowledge Base
Advisors: Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum
[PDF] [ Latex code(request by email)]
- Deriving a Web Scale Common Sense Fact Database
Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2011)
In: Proc. AAAI 2011. [PDF] [slides]
- Information Extraction from Web-Scale N-Gram Data
Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo (2010)
In: Proc. Web N-gram Workshop at SIGIR 2010. [PDF]
- A Weighted Tag Similarity Measure Based on a Collaborative Weight Model
Srinivas G, Niket Tandon, Vasudeva Varma (2010)
In: Proc. CIKM Workshop - SMUC at CIKM 2010. [PDF]
- Iteratively mining dictionaries from Wikipedia for under-resourced languages
Rohit B., Niket Tandon, Vasudeva Varma (2010)
In: Proc. ICON at ICON 2010. [PDF]
- Addressing challenges in automatic Language Identification of Romanized text
Pavan K., Niket Tandon, Vasudeva Varma (2010)
In: Proc. ICON at ICON 2010. [PDF]
- Simulation of coordinating sniffer robots for building odor maps
Niket Tandon, Karthik A. , Shardul R., Venkatakrishna P. (2009)
In: Proc. IEEE at ICCNT International Conference on computer and network technology 2009. [PDF]
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