Pranav Nair

Hi There!

I am Pranav, currently pursuing my integrated Bachelors and Masters of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. For the past few years I have been working in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval with my interests aliging with knowledge-driven AI, low resource NLP and training-parameter efficient transfer learning.

I have previously worked on machine commonsene, summarization and low-resource NLP at the NLPRL, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. Currently, at the Language Technologies group, University of Hamburg I am working on analyzing the effect of output vocabulary token length for SPARQL semantic parsing with prompt tuning and finetuning. Previously I have worked here on end-to-end KGQA and knowledge graphs.
Also, I am working on zero-shot abstractive summarization with prompt tuning at the IR Lab, IIT (BHU) Varanasi.

Here is the link to my CV.

news

May 15, 2022 Started with my summer intern at Mastercard AI Garage!
Apr 1, 2022 Paper on SPARQL semantic parsing accepted at SIGIR’22 Main Conference!
Aug 28, 2021 Two papers accepted at RANLP 2021 Student Reserach Workshop. One on reducing repetition and the other on introducing commonsense knowledge into abstractive summarization.
Aug 14, 2021 Submitted two papers at RANLP 2021 Student Research Workshop.
Jul 27, 2021 Submitted a paper (joint work with Rajesh Kumar Mundotiya) at the Journal of King Saud University.
Jul 23, 2021 Volunteered at and attended ICML 2021 (virtual).
Jun 6, 2021 Attended NAACL 2021 (virtual).
May 12, 2021 Started working as a guest researcher at the Language Technology group, University of Hamburg.
May 5, 2021 Was Awarded the prestigious DAAD WISE Scholarship for a research intern at a German University.