This paper discusses about the finding of causality of an event in newspaper articles. The analysis of causality , otherwise known as cause and effect is crucial for building efficient Natural Language Understanding (NLU) supported AI systems such as Event tracking and it is considered as a complex semantic relation under discourse theory. A cause-effect relation consists of a linguistic marker and its two arguments. The arguments are semantic arguments where the cause is the first argument (Arg1) and the effect is the second argument(Arg2). In this work we have considered the causal relations in Tamil Newspaper articles. The analysis of causal constructions, the causal markers and their syntactic relation lead to the identification of different features for developing the language model using RBMs (Restricted Boltzmann Machine). The experiments we performed have given encouraging results. The Cause-Effect system developed is used in a mobile App for Event profiling called “Nigalazhvi” where the cause and effect of an event is identified and given to the user.

In this paper we give in detail how seen and unseen intent is detected and classified. User intent detection has a critical role in dialogue systems. While analysing the intents it has been found that intents are diversely expressed and new variety of intents emerge continuously. Here we propose a capsule-based approach that classifies the intent and a zero-shot learning to identify the unseen intent. There are recently proposed methods on zero-shot classification which are implemented differently from ours. We have also developed an annotated corpus of free conversations in Tamil, the language we have used for intent classification and for our chatbot. Our proposed method on intent classification performs well.

End-to-end coreference resolution is the task of identifying the mentions in a text that refer to the same real world entity and grouping them into clusters. It is crucially required for natural language understanding tasks and other high-level NLP tasks. In this paper, we present an end-to-end architecture for neural coreference resolution using AdapterFusion, a new two stage learning algorithm that leverages knowledge from multiple tasks. First task is in identifying the mentions in the text and the second to determine the coreference clusters. In the first task we learn task specific parameters called adapters that encapsulate the taskspecific information and then combine the adapters in a separate knowledge composition step to identify the mentions and their clusters. We evaluated it using FIRE corpus for Malayalam and Tamil and we achieved state of art performance.

ChemXtraxt main goal is to extract the chemical events from patent documents. Event extraction requires that we first identify the names of chemical compounds involved in the events. Thus, in this work two extractions are done and they are (a) names of chemical compounds and (b) event that identify the specific involvement of the chemical compounds in a chemical reaction. Extraction of essential elements of a chemical reaction, generally known as Named Entity Recognition (NER), extracts the compounds, condition and yields, their specific role in reaction and assigns a label according to the role it plays within a chemical reaction. Whereas event extraction identifies the chemical event relations between the chemical compounds identified. Here in this work we have used Neural Conditional Random Fields (NCRF), which combines the power of artificial neural network (ANN) and CRFs. Different levels of features that include linguistic, orthographical and lexical clues are used. The results obtained are encouraging.