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The Natural Language Processing Lab

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Welcome to The NLP Lab Pages

The Natural Language Processing Lab (NLP-Lab) is focused on theoretical work and implementations of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions using hybrid approaches, empiricist, neural, probabilistic, and knowledge-driven, with a particular interest in neuro-symbolic modeling. We are also interested in Quantum NLP and AI and NLP combined with Machine Learning (ML) solutions for computer vision and multi-modal information processing.

The NLP-Lab is located at Indiana University at Bloomington. While it is mainly a local group of students and researchers with a strong interest in NLP and AI here in Indiana, it has ties to colleagues all across the country.

During the Spring 2025 semester, we meet in person every week in Luddy Hall (BLIF) 0002, every Thursday from 5:00 to 6:30 PM. (See Teams and email announcements for more details.)

The Quantum AI and NLP Study Group meetings are in Luddy Hall (BLIF) 0002 every Friday from 4:00 to 5:30 PM.

Please contact Damir Cavar if you are interested in joining the NLP-Lab meetings.

Schedule

The topics to discuss, papers to read, or presentations to listen to during the Spring 2025 meetings:

Date Topic
01/16/2025 Regular meeting: LLMs, RAGs, and Knowledge Graphs: Medical abstracts to Knowledge Graphs
01/23/2025 Regular meeting: LLMs, RAGs, and Knowledge Graphs: Medical abstracts to Knowledge Graphs
01/30/2025 Regular meeting: LLMs, RAGs, and Knowledge Graphs: Medical abstracts to Knowledge Graphs
02/06/2025 presentation by Dr. Daniel Miehling, Indiana University, on “Hate Speech in Social Media”
02/13/2025 Regular meeting: LLMs, RAGs, and Knowledge Graphs: Medical abstracts to Knowledge Graphs
02/20/2025 Regular meeting: LLMs, RAGs, and Knowledge Graphs: Medical abstracts to Knowledge Graphs
02/27/2025 presentation by Prof. Jasminka Dobša, University of Zagreb, on “Emotion Detection”
03/06/2025 Regular meeting: LLMs, RAGs, and Knowledge Graphs: Medical abstracts to Knowledge Graphs
03/07/2025 presentation by Prof. Sam Alxatib (CUNY) “On until and its uses”
03/20/2025 No meeting - Spring Break
03/27/2025 Regular meeting: LLMs, RAGs, and Knowledge Graphs: Medical abstracts to Knowledge Graphs

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Research Foci

During the 2025 academic year, the focus is on:

In all these projects, we work on hands-on implementation of technologies, utilizing programming languages like Python and Rust, and graph or RDF libraries, as well as common graph-database systems like Apache Jena, Fluree, oxigraph, AllegroGraph, GraphDB, or Neo4j.

See for example:

If you are interested in joining our Rust tutorials with a focus on using Rust for NLP and AI or in Robotics environments (with the [Robot Operating System] (ROS)), please get in touch!

Previous projects foci:

Team

Muhammad S. Abdo Jose P. Benavides
Dr. Damir Cavar Andrew Davis
Billy Dickson Benjamin Glidden
James Graves Shusuke Hashimoto
Vance Holthenrichs Jiaqi Huang
Armando Hull Selim Kim
Soyoung Kim Akriti Kumari
Dr. Nicholas LaRacuente Elias Naske
Ananth Karkala Pai Koushik Reddy Parukola
Emily Reed Victor Shi
Shane A. Sparks Amy C. Stafford
Ling Sun Jayapraksh Theyaneshwaran
Dr. Zoran Tiganj Rong Zheng

Former Team Members

Aarnav Luis Abrego
Nada Aggadi Dr. Ali Abdulaziz Aljubailan
Abhishek Babuji Oren Baldinger
Tanmayi Balla Rohit Bapat
Aarushi Bisht Jagpreet Singh Chawla
Aravind Dendukuri Shreeja Deshpanbe
Ian Devine Rushabh Dharia
Josephine Douglas Dr. Boli Fang
Matthew Fort Maanvitha Gongalla
Peace Han Calvin Josenhans
Murali Kishore Varma Kammili Anurag Kumar
Gordon Elliot Lichtstein Shujun Liu
MacIntosh Phillips, John Anshul Kumar Mangalapalli
Umang Mehta Dr. Anthony Meyer
Khaled Mohammed Dr. Ludovic Mompelat
Shreejith Panicker Chaitanya Patil
Harshwardhan Raghunath Patil Restrepo Ramos, Dr. Falcon Dario
Animesh Sagar Gopal Seshadri
Surya Prateek Soni Dhananjay Srivastava
Ashutosh Tiwari Khai Anthony Willard
Dr. Yuna Won Kimball Wu
Yuchen Yang Chi Zhang
Yiwen Zhang  

Here is our Event Calendar with all meeting times.