Girishkumar Ponkiya

About

I have a Ph.D. in NLP from IIT Bombay and work as a Data Scientist (Assistant VP) at Institutional Shareholder Services. My research focuses on using NLP for financial data collection, especially monitoring ESG controversies.

I am passionate about data structures, algorithms, machine learning, and formal verification. I aim to connect research with real-world applications in language processing technologies.

Publication

1. Girishkumar Ponkiya, Diptesh Kanojia, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Girish Palshikar, FrameNet-assisted Noun Compound Interpretation, in Findings of ACL-IJCNLP 2021, August, 2021.
2. Girishkumar Ponkiya, Rudra Murthy, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Girish Palshikar, Looking inside Noun Compounds: Unsupervised Prepositional and Free Paraphrasing, in Findings of EMNLP 2020, 16-20 Movember, 2020.
3. Girishkumar Ponkiya, Kevin Patel, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Girish Palshikar, Treat us like the sequences we are: Prepositional Paraphrasing of Noun Compounds using LSTM, COLING 2018, Santa Fe, New-Mexico, USA, August 20-26, 2018.
4. Girishkumar Ponkiya, Kevin Patel, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Girish K. Palshikar, Towards a Standardized Dataset for Noun Compound Interpretation, LREC 2018, Miyazaki, Japan, May 7-12, 2018.
5. Girishkumar Ponkiya, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Girish K Palshikar, On Why Coarse Class Classification is Bottleneck in Noun Compound Interpretation, ICON 2016, Varanasi, India, December 17-20, 2016.

Education

• Ph.D (Natural Language Processing)
  Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.
• M.Tech (Computer Science)
  Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
• B.E. (Computer Engineering)
  Saurashtra University, Rajkot.