An Initiative by Aiitians EDITORIAL BOARD ENLIGHTENING DR

TECHASHI Vol. 1 Issue #1 JULY, 2019 FOR EVERYTHING AIIT An Initiative by AIITians EDITORIAL BOARD ENLIGHTENING DR. ATUL K. CHAUHAN AMITY Chancellor, Amity University

“WE ARE CREATING CENTRES OF THOUGHT EVERYTHING IS LEADERSHIP ACROSS THE “ WORLD, WHERE FACULTY, SCIENTISTS & BRILLIANT POSSIBLE IF WE HAVE STUDENTS CAN EXPLORE AND EXPAND THE FRON- AN AMBITION OF THE DR.ASHOK K. CHAUHAN TIERS OF KNOWLEDGE.”

WILDEST KIND . HOPE Founder President At Amity our aim and dream is to equip Amity University you and each Amitian with the right value system, caring nature for others and FOR MORE IN ORDER thorough professional knowledge so that “MY MISSION IS NATION BUILDING you can be the leaders of our Country TO DREAM TO DARE THROUGH EDUCATION AND BEYOND……” and the world who will change all this. ASHISH SINGHAL AND JUST RAISE YOUR Amity is not just a group of institutions ND YEAR VALUATIONS AND EXIT which imparts world-class education, B.Sc IT- 2 but an experience where everyone associated is part of a dream, a mission to see that we nurture truly great leaders.

In my over 30 years stay in West Ger- many I realised, through interacting DR. BALVINDER SHUKLA with the over 6000 Europeans working for me, that we Indians have the intelli- Vice Chancellor, Amity University UP gence, the talent and the potential to be THE FEELING OF the more successful people in the world. M.Tech. (IIT Kharagpur), Ph.D. Queen's “ That is why we established the Ritnand University, U.K. Balved Education Foundation in 1986 to start institutions which will groom CONQUEST AND young future leaders.

ACHIEVEMENT IS A SELF Today, we are proud that Amity is syn- “AT AMITY, WE FOCUS ON EACH AND EVE- onymous with practical, industry focused education, and attracts the best RY STUDENT, TO BRING OUT THEIR FULL DOWNFALL, AN ANTI- students. The fact that our alumni are POTENTIAL AND EMPOWER THEM WITH A working in the best companies across WINNING ATTITUDE.” DOTE TO WHICH IS TO the world is a testament to our extreme- ly talented faculty who inculcate, by example, in each student the spirit of THINK WHAT CAN BE dedication, sincerity and loyalty, and to all the corporates who support our mis- Isha Gupta DONE BETTER sion with so much enthusiasm. BCA –2ND YEAR TOMORROW. Amity Institute Of Information Technology featured in TOP 5 in India Today ranking for BCA About AIIT… program in 2019.

Amity Institute of Information Technology (AIIT), Noida, integral part of Amity University Ut- tar Pradesh, is a centre of excellence for quality education in Information Technology with special focus on emerging trends.

Institute offers MCA, M.Sc.(NT&M), BCA, B.Sc.(IT), Ph.D. (IT) full-time and part-time, BCA+MCA(Dual) and BCA(Evening) programmes. Lectures are supported by independent study, tutorials, and resource based material and group work. We offer a compulsory foreign language to our students.

Highly qualified and committed core faculty supplemented by visiting faculty from industry Amity Institute Of Information delivers a state-of-the-art curriculum to keep the students abreast of latest developments in techniques and practices. At AIIT, Industry Interaction Platforms such as industry mentor- ing, ICT Vision Board, industry visits, Seminars and conferences are active. CYBUS has been a unique platform for an interface with the corporate world. Eminent personalities Technology is conferred from the industry have sought this platform to share their experiences with our students. The strong network of the alumni, its ambassadors, spread all over the globe, holding leading positions in industry and academia alike are a testimony to the Institute's focus of nur- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY turing individual actualization and the pursuit of excellence.

AIIT has tie-ups with CISCO and InterSystems Pvt. Ltd. CISCO Networking Program pro- INSTITUTE AWARD, “2015 vides a curriculum of four Semesters participation program, enabling students to attain the privileged CCNA Certification and Training. AIIT is the first Institute in India to offer Inter- Systems CacheCampus Program to foster knowledge about Cache among the student community. Amity University has collaboration with EMC2, Sun MicroSystems, Oracle, SAP LEADERS AWARD (Education)” and Nucleus. Being a part of the University, the students of AIIT have the opportunity to avail access to the courses offered by these organizations.

The Institute inculcates human values and professional ethics in the students, which help them, make decisions and create path that are good not only for them, but also are good for the society, for the nation and for the world as whole. We have a strong Mentor-Mentee program where a small group of students is attached to a faculty. The faculty so assigned acts as a friend, philosopher & guide to the students & help them understand and realize their dreams. DR. AJAY RANA

Professor & Director Amity Institute Of Information Technology

“A true leader is a person who not only has the ability to lead masses but at the same time possess an eye to identify potential leaders “ You will never always be •

Motivated. India is producing a amount of skilled scope for developing the framework for If someone wishes to know my opin- workforce and on the other IT industry is generations to study and follow. But ion about the existing scenario in having great potential. India is very high when I compare the IT Industry when I the field of education than I would in demand across the globe those who joined from what it is today, there is a say that “we have already got a ro- You have to learn to be have the ability to understand, process huge difference and Pundits of this bust mechanism which demands no and execute. It is important for all to industry are predicting that it will be to change.” Many people from industry understand the market and then work evolve at a much faster pace relatively and academia would counter me on on the interest areas for higher educa- in a shorter time span. this note but I am very clear and tion. for any specific technology/ indus- rigid over the statement made. But Moreover, some may join me pitching try could be high today but at the time of there is a strong reason behind that. Disciplined. the statement that this industry extends obtaining your degree, will it remain the The technology, with innovation, significant support to other fields of same? It is the toughest question to what it was 10 years ago is different engineering as well. In an era of Auto- answer for any budding engineer. from the one which we have today mation, Artificial Intelligence, robotics and will vary significantly after a and so on, every allied field of engi- Here, the role of teachers, parents, decade from now. If educational neering more or less are dependent on guardians come into play. Before finaliz- institutes would not evolve with the Information Technology. ing any program, whether it is of your changing market/ industry needs, interest area or not before joining the One can say that the Industry since its then there are possibilities that they same students need to study the trends, exploratory phase is not updated, it is may lose their grip in many areas. existing scenario and future predictions. completely changed. Therefore, in my From my point of view, why I firmly If we just look at the past few specific opinion, the IT Industry or the Comput- believe that the education system years (once in a decade in the 30 er Science Education is having huge does not require any modifications years), the Industry has always been on potential, great career opportunities at this point of time is simply associ- top in the charts of employment and job and lot many things to explore. ated with one question “are we (the satisfaction. section of the service in- teacher and students) clear with the dustry is now totally dependent on IT What’s needed is an open mind to basics?” Sector and Indians are successfully cultivate new ideas and understand the leading the work by producing skilled requirement of the . “We should first make our students manpower for the service industry. versed with the existing trends and make them future ready to accept and Due to constant innovation and hard face all the changes and advance- work, Indians are proving their calibers ments.” across all formats of the Industry. When I personally opted for higher education in the field of Computer Science and Engineering, it was on the emerging front. We were having tremendous AI plus Marketing, what’s the new catch? Prof(Dr.) Laxmi Ahuja

• Dr Laxmi Ahuja is When we think about Artificial Intelli- marketing in helping marketers effec- presently Professor gence, the first thing that crosses our tively understand the data, it becomes mind is probably not Marketing. The important to understand the two terms and Dy. Director buzzword is associated with the tech- individually, Big Data and Machine ( S tudent Affairs ) . sector, ranging from healthcare to elec- Learning (ML). Starting with Big Da- • She completed her tronic machines and what not. People ta, it is nothing but large amounts of are aware about what AI is and probably structured or unstructured data that is Ph.D ( CSE ) in also about Marketing as a term alone, not possible to be handled on a normal 2011 .Prior to this she but the two terms together? Not so -data-processing software, due to its much. Ai, unlike some people think, is did M.Phil ( CS ) . complexity. On the other hand, Ma- “Good people see the not a threat but a benefit and helping chine Learning (ML) refers to the • Having vast experi- hand to business strategies. study of learning data by the computer ence of approx.19 systems leading machines to learn for Most dictionaries and online portals de- themselves and improve learned expe- good and bring out years in academics. fine this as a process of using automa- riences. • Her areas of interest tion, especially in machine learning, to include Search En- attain data, understand user needs and When it comes to using these for mar- greatly improve the customer journey. keting, companies are looking for the best in other gine, Data Mining and ways to understand their customers Soft Computing Over the years, Marketers have been and improve their experience with working hard to know and understand Techniques. their product/service. They do this by their target audience as efficiently as a simple method, extract-aggregate- people.” • She has published possible. Companies and brands have segment huge datasets using automa- more than 60 research learned to work with bid data and use analytics to their processes to define tion and not manually. After this step, papers in ( SCI/SCIE/ what their target audience is and how to they can analyze the best content for SCOPUS and others ) appeal to them. This becomes crucil in their audience. Now comes the power of machine learning, which helps us International and Na- the field of digital marketing, given the extensive range of online users. go a step forward with our data and tional Journals and understand the issues, coming up with Conferences including All marketers have specific goals which solutions and further predicting out- range from either increasing ROIs, prof- Inderscience, Spring- comes for the future. its and boost their presence in the mar- er, IEEE, Elseveir,IGI ket. Using the wide amount of data, Global and several called the Big data along with machine learning as AI Marketing tools helps others. Session chair them achieve their goals in a timely in various Confer- manner. ences . But before diving deep into how AI x

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TRAININGS FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM & COLLABORATIONS DEEP LEARNING

• CISCO has recognized “Amity Cisco ASC as Select Partner” in India 2016.. • Networking Academy works with business partners, NGOs, Government Agencies and Academies to help students and alumni pursue career opportunities in networking and ICT. • As a Networking Academy Student, students gain access to innovative learning DR. Nitin Pandey tools, a global support community, and resources to help them to launch their CISCO Coordinator career.

• InterSystems Cache' is an advanced object databases that provides in memory speed with persistence, and the ability to handle huge volumes of transactional data. • Amity students also get opportunity to participate on an International Platform Dr. S.K. Jha "DEVCON" where they compete with international students for Cache' technology Intersystems Program enabled projects. Coordinator • DEVCON is the call for students posting projects.

GUEST In Association With LECTURES TATA CONSULTANCY

Research is an integral part of academic activities and one cannot excel without research in academia. That’s the reason - it is beyond imagination to visualize a place of high learning without research. Keeping in mind the same, AIIT organized Faculty Development Programme — “Deep Learning”.

The objective of the FDP is to promote the recent development in Deep Learning. FDP will provide a platform to encourage and exchange of ideas, techniques and experiences in the field of Research. FDP is designed for early career academics and researchers in Information technology discipline. The programme is designed for academicians and researchers to have in depth knowledge about techniques and methods related to deep Learning and also to encourage to think about how these techniques manage the process of research. The objective of the programme is to provide a holistic experience of undergo- ing a research process. The FDP comprises the discussion of theories, applications and case studies in the field of Deep Learning, Data Analytics and Business Intelligence. WORKSHOPS The session was given by Team of TCS top Speakers from Industry like Mr. Rajit Sikka, Mr. Pankaj Bhardwaj and Mr. Ankit Sethi on the emerging Deep Learning, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence techniques under the leadership and guidance of Prof(Dr.)Ajay Rana sir , Director Amity Institute of Information Technology. Faculty Members and Research Scholars from AIB, ASET and Amity Insti- tute of Information Technology attended the Faculty Development Programme . Session ended with open house discussions, in which there was lot of interaction between audience and speakers. Speakers were facilitated .Overall, it was a interactive knowledge sharing day. VALUES H HUMAN VALUES “We rise up by lifting others.” When we are born, the first thing we are taught is values but why values? The U answer is pretty simple because they portray our character. We never knew that we should greet our elders as well as younger A ones. Our parents taught us that, food, water, shelter and clothes M are known to be the basic amenities in one’s life but the most im- C portant amenity we forget, is our values. We should focus on be- CLUB T ing benevolent towards humanity as it cleanses our soul. A I Under human value year, we aim at igniting a spark within every V human being by performing various activities such as donation of N clothes and food items, seva to Holy Places, organizing various I awareness programs. Under this students have shown a great interest and have actively participated in the events organized. As T said by Ralph Waldo Emerson “The purpose of life is not to be I happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” E Working on these lines we aim at providing philanthropic, human- S itarian ethics to students and spreading the same moral principles to people near us and to people insensitive to the degraded state of the society. C U L T U R A L

ACTIVITIES

Amity University organizes an orientation programme every year for the Student fresh batches to facilitate their transition to the University system. The purpose is to introduce new students to the University life, inculcate in them TREE PLANTATION the ethos and culture of the institution, help them build bonds with students Orientation and faculty members, and expose them to a sense of larger purpose and self exploration, which will support their educational and personal goals. EVENT 2019-20 Orientation programme covers four different aspects (SAGE): 1. Socializing: meeting other new students, senior students, Lectures by Eminent People; 2. Associating: visits to University / college, visits to Dept./Branch/ Pro- gramme of study & important places on campus, local area, city and so on; Participating Students: 3. Governing: rules and regulations, student support etc >Priyank Sinha Experiencing: Subject lectures, study skills, small-group activities, physical activity, creative and performing arts, literary activities, universal human val- A1000718022, MCA - 3 ues, etc. >Siddharth Gupta A1000718004, MCA- 3 Some Process that took place in the three day Orientation Program >Amitha Mohan A1000718038, MCA – 3 > Registration > Havan > Academics Meeting > Face with Campus >Amizone > Interac- tion with HOI , PLs & Faculty Members > Proficiency Test > Global Engagement of Amity > >Aman Gupta Inclusion Goal Settings > Creative Expressions > Community Lunch A1004918071 >Combined Students of BCA,

Road Map To Careers An interactive session with industry leaders in combination with alumni . Thus, a platform for young students to get awareness Objective: The primary objective of the event was to inculcate regarding the expectations of the industry which in return will Venue: Adjacent to E2 help them in establishing a healthy career. Also, the alumni Block, Opp. Central an essence of sensitivity, bonding and affection towards nature. shared their experiences regarding the university with the Planting of a sapling is a simple yet a powerful and impacting newcomers. Below are few glimpses of the same. Library, Amity Uni- Details of Invitees (Alumni, Industry experts etc.): versity, Uttar Pra- activity responsible for amelioration of the flora. Mr. Shashank Bisht – D.S. Group, HR desh Mr. Amit Kumar Singh – Technical Architect, Pitney Bowes Soft- Value Represented: Student Learning Outcome: Students understood the rele- ware. vance and importance of caressing nature and such small steps Mr. Abhay Kumar – Senior Manager Product Development, Pitney Grace towards na- Bowes Software. ture have induced in them a grace towards nature. Mr. Abhinav Singh – Senior Project Lead, Thales. Date of Conduct: 26th July 2019 How Student will apply in real life: With such understanding of caressing the nature, students will take appropriate steps for Faculty In-charge: Dr. Outcome of the sessions: Laxmi Ahuja, Dr. its betterment in or outside the campus. Such small steps (i.e. The 3 day orientation program organized for the newly admitted Sapna Sinha watering a plant, planting a sapling, etc) will teach them to treat students makes them aware about their routines during the stay at the university premises. Student Coordinator: mother nature with respect. Siddharth Gupta & Amitha Mohan Details of the activity: A bunch of students gathered at the ven- Student Organizing ue along with the respected faculty members. The event was Team: Siddharth Gupta, Amitha Mo- concluded after respected HOI sir along with some fellow stu- han, Aman Gupta dents planted the sapling.

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TECH EXPERTISE UPCOMING “I have 14 + year experience of Product Development and R&D and managing and developing high perfor- mance team. I have been involved in Design, Architecture and Development of Enterprise Location Intelli- gence Platform, Location Based APIs, and Location Intelligence Solution for Marketing. I am currently managing the Global Service Delivery team at Pitney Bowes India delivering. My multi geographic team is spread across North America, EMEA & APAC working on design, development and roll out of various solutions across Banking, Telecom, Insurance, E-Governance & Enterprise Application integration domain. “ EVENTS Recent Advancement & Research Scope in TOT & IOE

Solving the woes of Take an example, Dr. Subhranil Som addressing for a country The Dharavi slums like India, where every in Mumbai has 1 state has a unique for- million households mat of representing the and numerous 1st Aug, 2019 address is the challenge “Addressing household enter- that all the tradition GIS companies with their prises with annual the World Geocoding engines face. turnover of US$500 mil- IT FDP on Cuting Edge Without Geocoding is the pro- lion. Dharavi is the cess of finding associat- most densely pop- SUMMIT 23rd Aug, Technology(Machine Address” ed geographic coordi- ulated place on the nates ( expressed as planet. Imagine if Learning) latitude and longitude) you had to deliver 3.0 from other geographic a package to one data, such as street ad- of the houses or dress, or ZIPCodes/ the small factories Postal Codes. Three that runs within main methods of ge- MR. ABHAY KUMAR Dharavi, and you 9th Aug, 2019 ocoding that are available are: players in this field can used one of the boast about how accurate traditional Gecoding engines, Special points of they are in North America, no surprises they would not • by street address Europe and Australia. But interest: be accurate. • by postal code when it comes to India or for that matter any country • Working in Location Analytics by boundary • that does not have a stand- and Data and Customer Infor- What are the other solu- IOT Security mation Management. ardize addressing mechanism, they fall flat. tions? Dr. Rachna Jain • Responsible for Design and Almost all the major I'm going to list down 3 solutions Architecture of key product capabilities like Platform Inde- pendent MRR, Large Data Visu- 1. what3words 2. MapCode 3. NAC alization, Location Based APIs. what3words is a universal addressing system The Natural Area Code (or Universal Ad- 22nd Aug, 2019 A mapcode represents a location. Every location dress) is a proprietary geocode system for based on a 3mx3m global grid. on Earth can be represented by a mapcode. • LI for Marketing Platform & identifying an area anywhere on the Earth, or Each of the 57 trillion 3mx3m squares in the Mapcodes were designed to be short, easy to Single View of Customer using world has been pre-allocated a fixed & unique a volume of space anywhere around the recognise, remember and communicate. They Earth. The use of thirty alphanumeric charac- 3 word address. Their geocoder turns geo- are precise to a few meters, which is good Data Analytics and Machine ters instead of only ten digits makes a NAC graphic coordinates into these 3 word address- enough for every-day use. The mapcode system Learning. es & vice-versa. shorter than its numerical latitude/longitude is a free, open standard. They are in the process equivalent. of filing the system as an ISO standard. Map- FDP on Cuting Edge Tech- Instead of numerical longitudes and latitudes, Each what3words language is powered by a code source code is released Apache License Carrier Version 2.0. a grid with 30 rows and 30 columns - each wordlist of 25,000 dictionary words. The cell denoted by the numbers 0-9 and the nology(Machine Learning) wordlists go through multiple automated and The mapcode system was designed as a free, twenty consonants of the Latin alphabet - is brand-less, international standard that allows human processes before being sorted by an laid over the flattened globe. A NAC cell can Planning 29th Aug, 2019 any location on the surface of the Earth to be algorithm that takes into account word length, be subdivided repeatedly into smaller NAC distinctiveness, frequency, and ease of spelling represented by a short, easy to recognize and grids to yield an arbitrarily small area, subject remember “code”, usually consisting of between and pronunciation. to the ±1 m limitations of the World Geodetic 4 and 7 letters and digits. System (WGS) data of 1984.

22nd Aug, 2019 Background:

The field of quantum technologies is poised for Initiative on Quantum Technology significant break- throughs in the coming years. The essential fea- The Initiative: tures that contribute to these technologies are The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has been declared an Institute of superposition, entan- Eminence (IOE) by the Government of India in July 2018. One of the glement, squeezing and cutting-edge research areas that IISc seeks to explore seriously under tunneling of quantum IOE is the field of “Quantum Technologies.” IISc has several faculty states. Practical applica- members, in physics, engineering, and computer science, who have tions are expected to ap- started working together on such technologies. pear first in sensing and metrology, then in communications and simula- Roadmap: tions, then as feedback to Programmers and scientists Damodharan Padmanabhan, CEO of AI “It is when the bot gives up trying to startup PositiveNaick Analytics. understand what is being said that we foundations of quantum are exposing chat bots to da- His company has built a sentiment lexi- sometimes detect sarcasm – as the tone IQT plans to set up international collaborations in this field, and take theory, and ultimately in con over two years, enabling its machine radically changes. While it is hard and help of an international advisory committee to guide the research effort. quantum computing. The ta libraries that can enable learning software to pick out even infor- still early days, we will be able to de- field is multi- mal symbols of human sentiment like code complex sentiments in future,” he disciplinary, combining emojis and smileys. said. IQT plans to train and hire skilled researchers in this cutting-edge re- physics + computer sci- them to analyze human search field, at the student, the post-doctoral and the faculty level. “Every word keyed in is an input for us Amplify.ai is a Noida and Silicon Valley ence on the theoretical emotions. to analyze,” says Padmanabhan. -based company that leverages Tensor side, and physics+ engi- Flow, a machine learning library, and IQT will hold periodic workshops and meetings in this field, to keep neering on the experi- Interestingly, programming and lan- has data sets from conversations with abreast of the latest developments, and also to motivate young re- mental side. guage proficiency, both English and over 200 million end-users. For custom- A variation in human expression, from searchers. regional, are put together to develop er-facing businesses, the benefits of joyous whoops to aggressive growls, is chat bots, producinging demand for “soft analyzing human emotions are clearly Compared to the world- now fodder for chat bots. Powered by skills” in the technology domain. Lan- visible already. Uber’s food-delivery wide development, the Artificial Intelligence, these chat bots are Structure of the Research Centre: guage proficiency ranks high in priority venture Uber Eats operates in over 500 existing expertise and detecting consumer sentiment and tone during job interviews, he says. cities in India through a network of using their platforms and building a re- facilities available in In- over 2.2 lakh restaurants. It uses chat A worthwhile effort in this high-risk-high-reward field has to blend pository of oft-used exclamations to mark dia are limited on the AI startups have also developed suites bots for customer-query management. both concrete deliverables and open-ended research investigations. Al- out an angry or pleased customer. out of chat bot products, such as enter- so, simultaneous explorations of competing technologies must comple- theoretical side and se-

prise-grade conversational AI platforms “There are certain experiences on the verely lacking on the ex- This has become particularly important ment each other, by contrasting their advantages and limitations. To sold to larger companies. platform that need real-time support perimental side. To build in a digital age where brands slipping in make the best use of the available expertise, IISc has put together a like order change requests, delivery customer service standards stare at se- up the field of quantum Kore.ai, a Florida-based company found- address changes, or order cancellations structure involving people from different departments. vere censure in social media. A chat bot technologies from this ed by serial entrepreneur Raj Koneru and can be efficiently resolved through breaks down a user’s sentence into sim- with product developments teams in self-service mechanisms on the plat- stage, even in carefully pler components, sometimes in very basic This centre aims to deliver quantum enhanced technologies. Its experi- Hyderabad, offers a platform feature form,” an Uber spokesperson said. selected areas, is a signif- English to pick out the topic in reference, mental program will focus on superconducting qubit devices, sources that methodically analyses sentiment by icant challenge. IISc intent and sentiment - as an added layer adding machine learning strengths to “There might be certain other experi- and detectors for quantum communications, and quantum sensors. It of analytics. plans to bring the Indian programs that detect human emotions. ences which require a human interface. will benefit from the dedicated national nano-fabrication facility at IISc. pursuit in this field on Sentiment analysis models are ever- Machine learning, basically a set of code The theoretical effort will certainly support the experimental program, Machine learning helps the bot learn evolving…and help us efficiently man- par with the rest of the built on repetitively analyzing huge while being broad-based enough to explore other open areas in this rap- through iterations, besides additional age decisions on what experiences are world, with a dedicated blocks of data sets, is being leveraged to training using synonyms, patterns and best delivered by automation or idly advancing field. The developments in quantum technologies will and focused effort. predict the base sentiment or mood of the whole utterances, which reduce the through a human interface for custom- also push classical technologies in new directions. user in order to draft an appropriate re- amount of manual training inputs by ers,” the spokesperson added. sponse. the developer and therefore the time to

get a chat bot up and running, Vedam - Quantum Technology A dependency parser is a software that said. Sarcasm is one tricky situation enables computers to process natural ( Indian Institute where a bot might trip up, plunging the language. It analyzes the grammatical of Sciences ) machine into confusion about the intent -The Economic Times structure of a sentence, establishing rela- of the user. Manoj Malhotra, co-founder By Bharani Vaitheesvaran tionships between “head” words and and CTO at Amplify.ai, says efforts are (Edited) words which modify those heads,” said on to detect sarcasm, too.

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